2024 Art Expo,
I’ve arranged things a bit differently this time around. Instead of following a path through Festival Hall, I’ve made separate sections for African and African-American art, and then sorted out the rest the best I could. *************** Sophia Anthony (b. 1997) Flower, Further The title is puzzling - but the scene seems straight-forward enough: a young woman is initiating sex with a partner who is turned away, probably reading a book on the sofa. Presumably they are college students in a low rent apartment. I cannot read the space of the foreground - as delicious as it is. It enhances the sense of anticipation rather than depicting a possible interior space. An empty chair never felt so erotic. Nothing else in this year’s Expo combines a deep pictorial space with an upbeat, familiar narrative and natural figuration in perspective . Perhaps it was just a class assignment to paint like a Dutch Master. But wouldn’t it be nice if the student went r...