Karen Lynn Gorney

Pussy In The Sky With Swan, Mixed Media on Arches by Karen Lynn Gorney

Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian Title: Silvia Year: 2009 Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed Size: 19.7 in. x 10.2 in. (50.04 cm x 25.91 cm) Frame Size: 31.5 x 17.5 inches

This reclining nude portrait of a woman on a picnic makes several different art historical references. The bold, almost neon colors are reminiscent of the tropical paintings rendered by Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The setting harkens back to "Luncheon in the Grass" by Manetl. And the pose is historically associated with sex workers and the goddess Venus, in paintings like "Olympia" by Manet, "Grande Odalisque" by Inges, and even further back like "Venus of Urbino...

Artist: Moses Soyer, American (1899 - 1974) Title: Standing Pregnant Nude Year: 1965 Medium: Pastel on paper, signed l.l. Size: 24 x 15.5 in. (60.96 x 39...

Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian Title: Anna I Year: 2009 Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed Size: 8.3 in. x 19.7 in. (21.08 cm x 50.04 cm) Frame Size: 18.5 x 29 inches

Duchándome and Pity June 4th, by Celso Castro-Daza From the Duchándome Series Watercolor, ink, and pastel on archival paper. NUDES 2D Overall image size: 19.5 i...

"Pensando & recordando a Luis Caballero" by Celso Castro-Daza From the Duchándome Series Watercolor, pastel, and ink on archival paper Sheet size: 19.5 ...

Duchándome and Pity June 4th, by Celso Castro-Daza From the Duchándome Series Watercolor, ink, and pastel on archival paper. 1. Duchándome 2. Pensando & recordando a Luis Caballero...

Duchándome, by Celso Castro From the Duchándome Series Watercolor, ink, and pastel archival paper. NUDES 2D Individual size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W 2018 Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. ____________ Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...