Margherita Manzelli's Stillnox is an arresting, ambivalent portrait of a woman reclining awkwardly on a hard surface with her legs seeming to hang over the side. We were drawn to the woman's large, intense eyes, which are rendered very realistically, while her hair is much more painterly. Her gaze reveals little. We do not know. He paints flattish gray-green acrylic backgrounds and lays or sews threads and yarn on them to suggest the lines and volumes of trees, hills and a barn.
Drift marries a tired image to tacky techniques, but seems fresh and alive.
This risky painting succeeds because it is based on concise draftsmanship. His landscape scene is banal, however. Dumas comes from South Africa. We see many city scenes and numerous nudes, mostly muscular males with glistening, hairless bodies. Skrebneski photographs women too, but as mannequins or props.