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Contact Information: |
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Email: Alicia DeBrincat |
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Artist Statement: |
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My oil paintings comment on the experience of being a woman in modern society. Barraged by slang and symbols or alone in the dark, women attempt to navigate contemporary culture's conflicting expectations of them. My images dissect society's paradoxical relationship with women and the female body. They examine American culture's simultaneous obsession with the female body/female sexuality and its Puritanical attitudes toward sexuality, as well as its repulsion with the female body the way it naturally is. The women in my paintings appear alone and on display as they navigate the gulf between "I am" and "I should be." The paint is applied with an attention to anatomical detail that both celebrates women's bodies and references the leering voyeurism and minutely critical gaze that the female body encounters. Words and phrases occasionally appear in the composition to label or describe with the coldness of a pathology report. |
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