Alexandra Higgins

She Felt like she was Disappearing

2017

This is a portrait of Felisa Rincón de Gautier (Doña Fela) whose terms in office as Mayor of San Juan lasted from 1947-1969. The painting captures Doña Fela's iconic gestures: her ever present fans, in this case white with red floral embellishments, her Spanish coif, and a mahogany wicker chair. In the painting Dona Fela wears a violet dress...

This acrylic on canvas painting is of a Renaissance Madonna. Framed beautifully, this spiritual portrait is of a graceful moment. The cerulean blue fabric is used to represent extrav...

This oil painting shows a figure of a woman most often associated with Cuban folk life. The title of the painting may be translated as the "The Seer and Seller of Cigars," indicating...

This oil on canvas portrait of a Hudson Valley farm worker shows on his face the demands of the work and his openness to life. The artist treats the blue denim in its many hues as if she were showing the many folds of royal clothing in an eighteenth century portrait...

Although this painting of oil on canvas is named after the "Cat" (le Chat), the painting mainly depicts a woman sweeping with a broom. The cat, a popular tabby painted in great detai...

This oil on canvas painting features a beautifully formed pair of women's legs in classic red stiletto heels. The background of the painting also shares ...

"My work with abstract form, and with this recent series of oil paintings, focuses mainly on shape, form and volume as subject matter. These shapes/forms are based mainly on the squa...

"My work with abstract form, and with this recent series of oil paintings, focuses mainly on shape, form and volume as subject matter. These shapes/forms are based mainly on the squa...

"My work with abstract form, and with this recent series of oil paintings, focuses mainly on shape, form and volume as subject matter. These shapes/forms are based mainly on the squa...

"My work with abstract form, and with this recent series of oil paintings, focuses mainly on shape, form and volume as subject matter. These shapes/forms are based mainly on the squa...

The patient waiting for Bresson's “decisive moment” characterizes the pictures of the young Polish painter Marzena Slusarczyk. The compositions of her works have the magic of a successful photography. Often with a powerful neckline, they use expressive foreshortened perspectives and unusual versions and they take us into an intimate dimension of the women portrayed. However, Slusarczyk's pictures are mainly emotions captured on canvas, and this is what makes her works so special. The women she paints perform normal, banal activities in everyday life. But they are the key to reading the feelings of the female figures lost in thought. The lack of clarity in the artist's pictures allows the viewer to make their own interpretations. As the painter herself emphasizes, the aim of playing with the audience is to awaken the viewer's imagination and imagination so that they notice the seemingly invisible. This mystery and the unspoken are reminiscent of the paintings by Michelangelo Caravaggio...

The Dutch multidisciplinary artist, Ger Doornink, specialises in painting, illustration and photography. Time spent living in Tokyo, Milan and currently Amsterdam, has heavily influe...