The Nude in the 21st Century

Jennifer Agricola-Mojica



Joan Appel



Carol Blum



Robert Creighton



Robert Creighton



Patrick Deshaye



Patrick Deshaye



Irene Dogmatic



Grace Flott



Ghislaine Fremaux



Drea Frost



Laura Genovese



Jane E. Herrold



Valerie Hollstein



Kate Howe



Sebastian Hyde



Tom Jensen



Linda Pearlman Karlsberg



Linda Pearlman Karlsberg



Mark Kaufman



Ken Klos



Joe Lastomirsky



Sandy Lerman



Harold Lohner



Pat McCallum



Pat McCallum



Jessica McCoy



Joseph Miller



Richard Motchman



Richard Motchman



Sagan Newham



Robert Paulmenn



Franklin Ramos



Paul Rutz



Paul Rutz



Paul Rutz



Chris Sheridan



Chris Sheridan



Maya Sokolow



Jackie Ta



Tanya Tewell



Nanette Wallace



Nanette Wallace



Carrie Williams


THIRD PLACE AWARD

Maya Sokolow

(Santa Monica, CA)
Artist Website

Blind Justice II, Acrylic on Newsprint-- Finger-Painted, 48" x 36"

I began painting on newsprint out of necessity. As a teenager, it was readily available, inexpensive, easily stored and transported. Newsprint lacked the preciousness which left me feeling timid when approaching a canvas, especially as I began to exchange brushes for my own fingertips, eventually working exclusively with my hands when composing. Finger painting on newsprint offered both an immediacy and a practicality to my process-- I moved several times in my late teens and early twenties, each time carefully tucking my portfolio into a suitcase. As the newsprint itself began to age, I was moved by the temporality of the medium: the way in which the text, the images, the canvas itself brittled and yellowed, while the subject remained a constant. I came to embrace this gradual decay, the fading of the subject's original context, time articulating itself on the canvas.

There is, then, a delightful contradiction, in painting the human form onto a canvas in transition. I am moved by the enduring architecture of the human body, the power and vulnerability it wields, its ability to challenge or celebrate the ideals and desires of its given context. The context, however, is not insignificant to my work. My subjects are often in dialogue with the stories and narratives that surround them, offering up their horror, rage, confusion, dissatisfaction, resilience, and amusement. The stories that surround each figure change over time, the world as we know it brittles and yellows, order topples and is restored. The context dulls. The human form endures, in all its brilliant color.


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