I did some more work with the face charts and used the ones from the book this time.
I also did some experimental photos with a simple makeup look on myself. I actually really enjoyed the photo editing and I feel like I got more creative actually using makeup than drawing it on paper.
maybe of interest —
ReplyDelete...In recent years, Davis has invented for herself an entirely new genre: “make-up paintings,” twenty of which will be presented here at the gallery alongside one of Nevelson’s works from her black series. The small-scale cameo-like cosmetics-and-tempera paintings of women are often nose-less and with large eyes and pursed lips, painted on matchbooks, cardboard, envelopes and letterhead, and occasionally annotated with handwritten phrases such as “Corporations are not very attractive as people,” and “I am a woman trapped in the body of a woman inside a binder.” They often also include perfume, hairspray, and various other products of “traditional” femininity, and are emblematic of Davis’ break from the social shackles of prescribed feminism, much like Nevelson’s work did decades before. “The resulting forms suggest faces or masks, exposed intestines, genitals and knots of musculature,” Holland Cotter wrote in a 2015 review. “Bracingly feminist, prophetically anti-patriarchal.” “Davis is not religious,” Grace Dunham wrote in the New Yorker profile, “but her work is a sacred mythology for the outsider.”
Vaginal Davis and Louise Nevelson
Chimera
September 8 – October 22, 2017
at INVISIBLE-EXPORTS