Helen Beard
Subtitle: the desire path
By: essay by Matt Carey-Williams
Contributors: Reflex Modern Art Gallery
Publisher: Reflex Editions
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9789071848322
Subjects: Exhibitions; Sex in art; Erotic art
Other titles: Desire path
Description: Visually exciting - bright, dynamic and voyeuristic - the work of British artist Helen Beard wields colour, texture and abstraction as tools to take back ownership of sexual imagery from the predominantly male gaze. Beard's work explores themes relating to gender, sexual psychology and eroticism, forever unapologetic in her depictions of female desire. While Beard's artistic practice encompasses different mediums, including collage, sculpture, ceramics and needlepoint, 'The Desire Path' focuses on her painting and features work in a diversity of sizes, ranging from small studies to large-scale canvasses. The artist's small acrylic on board works function as preliminary studies for her oil on canvas paintings, in which she instinctively chooses the colours for her compositions. 00Exhibition: Reflex Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (09.05. - 13.10.2020).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Reflex Amsterdam, May 9-October 13, 2020.