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...Another display, entitled “Rejects,” shows some of Dumas’s less interesting drawings, shredded or otherwise mangled in an effort to depict the agony and alienation of being ugly in a world obsessed with superficial beauty. One gets the clear sense from Dumas’s work that in addition to being a cultural construct, female beauty is also a very loaded and emotional concept...
...come to resemble human beings in compromising positions. Morbid scenes of violence show lynchings, detached limbs, captivity and fear. Ali’s fine-grained gouache techniques allow her to emphasize disturbing minute details, like Confederate flags on the belt buckles of figures resembling Klu Klux Klansmen, and to depict race issues without using black and white...
...female form is omnipresent in Haney’s work, but also appears in an abstracted manner. The forms appear as line drawings or illustrations out of 1950s household magazines and do not depict current trends and fashions. Haney’s art seems to be making a statement about female domesticity by associating a highly stylized female form with cooking implements and household items. Yet the abstract nature of her work prevents an overly didactic reading of her paintings...
...second category of paintings in this exhibit depict Isis searching the countryside for the missing parts of her dead husband. These paintings are predominantly landscapes, into which Isis’ ghostly figure is placed. The paintings in this group are characterized by a drastic departure from the dusky colors seen in the paintings of Osiris’ death. Here we see a pastel color palate, best displayed in “Isis: The Paths Met.” This painting mixes a variety of vivid green shades that contrast with heavy blacks and browns to create a shadowy sylvan grove...
...final group of paintings concentrates on the “re-membering” of Osiris by Isis. Bright yellow and brilliant blue hues are employed, but a tendency toward pastel tones remains, reminiscent of the previous category of paintings. However, it is apparent that Apesos chose to depict the reincarnation of Osiris through the use of lively colors...