In 2011, West Palm Beach's Norton Museum of Art launched an exhibition series titled Recognition of Art by Women (RAW) "dedicated to honoring a contemporary female painter or sculptor." To date the institution has presented 10 exhibitions in the series and is now running a derivative exhibition called Recognition of Art by Women: In Retrospect which presents a limited selection from nine of the 10 artists showcased so far. I will showcase these selections -- individually -- over the course of the next few weeks beginning herein with Jenny Saville.
In 2011, Saville's self-titled exhibition was the first in the RAW series ad also her first career survey at a North American Museum. Literature accompanying the In Retrospect exhibition describes Saville's work as forging "a bold visual language that unites figuration and abstraction ... Saville's works evoke both sensuality and objectivity through large-scale, intricate paintings. Her subjects are sculptural, influenced by the Old European Masters who inform her practice."
Her pieces Atonement Studies -- Central Panel (Rosetta) and Mnemosyme 1 were on display at RAW: In Retrospect.
Atonement Studies is a Neo-Expressionism piece. Artnet describes it as depicting a blind woman Saville met while living and working in Palermo, a subjcet the artist calls "the most beautiful woman I have ever photographed." Artnet points to the subject's "tilted head, parted lips, milky eyes and striking bone structure all illuminated by her peachy skin tone and blue-ish shadows as a feat of expressionist glory."
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| Jenny Saville, Atonement Studies -- Central Panel (Rosetta), 2005 - 06 |
Saville is an accomplished Draughtsperson. She captures time in this charcoal drawing by including several arms and legs in different locations to show the movement of an energetic child.
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| Jenny Saville, Mnemosyne 1, 2012 |
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