Angela Fraleigh
What Care Although Your Beauties Break And Fall (2009), oil, galkyd resin, glitter, mylar chards, canvas on panel, 67 x 90 in.
Lead (2007), oil and galkyd resin on panel, 48 x 60 inches
In This Moment (2007), oil and galkyd resin on canvas over pane, 67 x 90 inches
The Story She Told From The Time On (2007), oil and galkyd resin on canvas over panel, 67 x 90 inches
Slight (2007), oil and galkyd resin on canvas over panel, 72 x 96 inches
Until This (2006), oil on panel, 6 x 8 feet
Here (Now Again) Tender Graces (2006), oil on panel, 6 x 8 feet
Even (2007), oil and galkyd resin on canvas over panel, 72 x 96 inches
Artist Statement
Questioning social constructs of beauty, class, gender and role play I am interested in the complications of desire, what power people have available to them and how they use that power. These images serve as a means of escape from one’s personal histories but also provide a space to question these idealistic scenarios. Drawing on dramatic moments from literature and framing the romantic stereotypes that are created, these images are complicated by obscured power structures. Ambiguity conceals where authority lies in these familiar images disrupting our understanding of these hackneyed relationships, while bringing into the foreground the continual power struggles still fueling our political, social and intimate relationships.
These tensions are heightened as paint itself becomes a tool for the disturbance; a main protagonist in the story and a carrier of meaning. Violent and seductive, threatening and unpredictable it complicates the image leaving us unsure if the figures are being birthed or eaten away; if the paint is taking control, acting as savior, interrupting, manipulating or providing the stimulus for the relationship. Physicality of the paint both cankers and covers the narrative, caressing the fine line between victim and volunteer. There is a desperate human quality in the work, one that embraces the flawed hero…. you know what was supposed to have happened but you also know it didn’t. (angelafraleigh.com).
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