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Black Eye 1, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 11" x 8 1/4" $125, framed |
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Dead Deer 1, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 12 1/4" x 8 3/4" SOLD |
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Pulled Cheek, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 10 7/8" x 8 3/8" $125, framed |
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Dead Hare 3, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 8 5/8" x 11 3/4" $125, framed |
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Chipped Tooth, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 10 3/4" x 8 1/2" $125, framed |
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Black Eye 2, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 10" x 7 3/4" $125, framed |
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Bruised Legs 1, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 12 3/8" x 9 1/4" $125, framed |
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Blue Fingers 2, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 8 1/2" x 11 1/4" $125, framed |
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Dead Deer 2, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 12 1/2" x 10" $125, framed |
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Insomnia 2, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" $125, framed |
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Burn Victim 2, 2007 Pencil & watercolor on paper 12 7/8" x 12 5/8" $150, framed |
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Bruised Neck, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 11" x 7 1/2" $125, framed |
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Blue Fingers 1, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 6" x 5" $100, framed |
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Bruised Legs 3, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 11 1/2" x 8 7/8" $125, framed |
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Dead Hare 1, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 10" x 7 1/2" $125, framed |
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Freckles, 2007 Pencil & water color on paper 9" x 11 1/4" $125, framed |
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Dead Fox, 2007 Pencil & china marker on paper 7 1/4" x 6 5/8" $100, framed |
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Burn Victim 1, 2007 Pencil & water color on paper 12 1/8" x 15 1/2" $150, framed |
He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead | New Drawings
Julia creates figurative drawings of provocative themes executed in a distinctive style with bold, confident line work. The Beloved series focuses on portraits of beings and the scars they bear.
Last month's show was meant to shock. In "He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead," 2004 Cornish graduate Julia Gfrörer continued with her "Beloved" series- intimate portraits of the scars and imperfections that people bear. In a 2007 piece titled Freckles, a slight woman hugs herself. Her body, which is elegantly distorted to accentuate her bony, female form, is a pristine line drawing. In stark contrast, her face is almost entirely concealed behind red freckles, her eyes and the angular structure of her face obfuscated amidst a sea of pointillist precision. In Burn Victim I, a similarly waiflike creature lies exposed in front of us. Eyes closed with her hands reaching down to cover the space between her legs, the pink-skinned model is modest but rides a fine line between temptress and innocent. The title, however, makes the work neither sexual nor naive. The pink coat that washes her body is a burn, not the delicate blush you might take it for. And the expression on the model's face might just as easily be pain as pleasure.
-Carrie E.A. Scott, Masters in Miniature, Seattle Weekly
Showing Apr 30th - June 1st, 2007 // Reception - Thursday, May 3rd from 6-9 PM