Lovers: The Wood-Panel Paintings of Audrey Kawasaki

08.24.10

With influences from manga and Art Nouveau, Audrey Kawasaki paints delicate portraits of seductive females and languid lovers against the background of the always highly-visible grain of the wooden panels she uses. Nature and animals surround these surreal figures with splayed hair, expressive hands, often truncated/cut-off bodies, and yearning expressions. The contrast is between innocence and eroticism, the beauty and morbidity that these figures represent.

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Tags: audrey kawasaki, erotic, innocence, pop surrealism, sweet/melancholy, truncated forms

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