the original

“No painting of a woman has ever been just a painting.”

(manifesto) (genre)

addenda:
the original. initiated 2019. a sustained inquiry into classical figurative tradition. five centuries of representational iconography recontextualized through rogue chromaticism. the figure is not constructed. the figure is encountered. the painting is the record of that encounter.

genre: subset. (access).

initiate inquiry

works index: a renaissance venus (access). a rose-colored venus. bleu vert madonna. celine. claire's lute. eventide. mandolin practice. porcelain venus (access) rococo pink madonna (access). the sirens. wildflower. yellow madonna.

the original

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