Somaya Critchlow

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Somaya Critchlow is a British artist who employs instinctive, stream-of-consciousness processes of image making to produce figurative paintings of women that explore nuances of race, sex, and culture. Her works, which range in scale from intimate miniatures to striking life-sized subjects depict bold, curvaceous, and self-possessed female characters of her own creation that simultaneously combine and subvert art historical conventions of race, gender, and power. Rendered in sensuous brushstrokes of dark, rich browns, Payne’s grey, and purples, her heroines emerge starkly against atmospheric backdrops of thinned oils evocative of European masterworks (such as those of Velázquez and Rubens) and David Lynch’s hazy, seedy environs. Though self-reflective and personal, Critchlow’s visual lexicon necessarily draws from the distinctions of race and class that form our contemporary visual landscape.

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Somaya Critchlow’s canvases and sketchbooks log an ongoing process of world building. The artist fashions these realms by drawing upon her expansive knowledge of picture-making traditions ranging from the Renaissance to the Rococo. In charting the ever-expanding dimensions of this female dominated universe, Critchlow casually disarms the distinctions that inform concepts of high and low culture by uncovering the ways in which class and racial difference are routinely conflated. The voluptuous, self-possessed women who explore Critchlow’s fantasy landscapes and pensively occupy domestic interiors or otherwise blank pages owe as much to the aesthetics of Love and Hip Hop as they do to Peter Paul Rubens, and thus prompt the viewer to consider the disparate ways in which we esteem these forms of culture-and the women they feature.

Paintings includes a newly commissioned scholarly text by Amanda Renshaw.

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Weight 826 g
Dimensions 28 × 29 × 1.7 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

144

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

759.2 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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