Artist Talk: Amy Bessone

Painter Amy Bessone gives an artist talk in the Feldman Gallery, in conjunction with Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Painter Amy Bessone gives an artist talk in the Feldman Gallery, in conjunction with Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Pacific Northwest College of Art and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art present an artist talk with painter Amy Bessone, whose work is featured in Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death, on view at the Feldman Gallery + Project Space January 17 – March 26, 2011.

Curated by PICA’s Kristan Kennedy, Between my head and my hand gathers together work in which the body is a painting, a shell, a gesture, a cartoon, a mask. Less portrait and more portrayal, the works included run from the highly sexualized and political to the austere and academic. When taken together, the work represents the kind of pictorial freedom ushered in by post-modernism and, furthermore, the figure post-Picabia. Seven distinctly different painters render our human form with a reverence for the architecture and meaning of the body without using “live” models as their material. The artists mine imagery from film, art history, memory, kitsch, and pop culture. It is here—between the energy of painting and the stillness of mechanization—that the work exists.

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Type of Work Lecture
Medium Audio Recording
Dimensions 01:07:15
Subject Matter Amy Bessone

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Name Pacific Northwest College of Art

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