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graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7"x10"
2011
Utilizing catharsis and sublimation of emotion, the limitations of pictorial expression are contrasted by the emphatically visceral expressiveness of line and gesture in “Misdirected Anger”. Interlacing elements of tension/release, realization/failure, frivolity/purpose, substantiality/superficiality, abstract/concrete as well as notions of restraint, rationalization, avoidance, intent and artistic pretense compose a mesh of calculated degradation. Abstraction of the human form into boisterous distorted primitive “silhouettes” and bundles of frenetic lines insinuates rationalized catharsis as a hindering superficiality while dramatizing the disparity between “relief/release” and “resolution”.
