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Artworks
Confrontation, 2020
Oil on canvas71 x 69 in.
180.3 x 175.3 cmSoldFurther images
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Looking toward influences that range from the torqued perspectives of American Regionalism to the gravity of Piero della Francesca’s paintings and the monumental figuration of Jose Clemente Orozco’s murals, Weaver’s...Looking toward influences that range from the torqued perspectives of American Regionalism to the gravity of Piero della Francesca’s paintings and the monumental figuration of Jose Clemente Orozco’s murals, Weaver’s works are an exploration of what she terms a “theater of public life.” In Confrontation, as with Weaver’s other street scenes, the sidewalk serves as a stage upon which interpersonal dynamics and power struggles are played out. In this painting, two pedestrians tangle in a head-on collision at a street corner that could be an enthusiastic reunion or a violent altercation. An otherwise-unseen feeling of menace in public is narrativized within this environment—and act—of intersection, which for Weaver functions as “an arena for pleasure and pain, and the intermingling of the two.”Exhibitions
Grace Weaver: STEPS, James Cohan, New York, NY, July 15 - September 12, 2020 -
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