Rebecca Morgan, 'Self Portrait, Wearing My Favorite Scarf and Sweater/My Face The Fattest It's Ever Been', 2013 Oil and graphite on panel, 14 x 12 inches
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is proud to present Fetching Blemish, a group exhibition of portraiture and figurative work addressing human flaws as sites of revelation and distinction. The show revels in flaws, deformities and the grotesque, rendering or expressing internal conflicts and anxieties as physical features, and approaching imperfection as a portal of identity and self-horror as a form of selfrecognition (or liberating and even transcendent performance). This all in a cultural moment, or perhaps its immediate aftermath, in painting and otherwise, enamored with style and seductiveness as an uncomplicated bid for recognition of the most satisfyingly charged kind. That is, to the extent it is enamored with figurative work at all.
Each of the artists in this show are in some ways, or understand themselves to be, outsiders, some of them stiff-arming and others processing and repurposing a harsh critical gaze. All seem engaged in overturning tendencies, preferences, and prejudices in recent portraiture as showcase of beauty, as refracted vanity, even as pin-up.
Radical Figures - 'Painting in the New Millennium'
Whitechapel Gallery
, United Kingdom
London,
United Kingdom
Tschabalala Self (1990); Dana Schutz (1976); Daniel Richter (1962); Christina Quarles (1985); Ryan Mosley (1980); Tala Madani (1981); Sanya Kantarovsky (1982); Nicole Eisenman (1965); Cecily Brown (1969); Michael Armitage (1984);
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