Exploring the tension between the private self and the public image.
Travel
Travel creates the possibility of becoming someone else.
Unfamiliar places loosen identity from habit, opening space for fantasy, performance, and selves that may remain suppressed at home.
Desire
Desire tests the limits of restraint.
Beauty, bodies, objects, fashion, and fantasy become charged with appetite, aspiration, and the seductive possibility of surrendering to what we want.
Identity
Identity is reshaped by what happens to us.
Through repetition, color, pose, and shifting versions of the figure, these works explore the aftermath of experience — how disappointment, regret, and contradiction fracture the stories we tell about who we are.
Art Now!
Art Now! explores contemporary artists and ideas shaping art today.
This blog looks closely at the questions being asked now — and how artists use image, form, identity, and culture to challenge assumptions and open new ways of seeing.