Monica Bill Hughes - Boob Bouquet (Taco Slip) (acrylic and glitter on canvas, 8"x 10", 2020
Through using motifs, ranging from iconic to mundane, I reinvent the often over-idealized female body through merging its fleshy forms with high heels, accessories, ancient fertility totems and food. My paintings flirt with the lines drawn between abstraction and recognition, celebration and critique, embodying a sense of conflict. The colors, patterns and familiar imagery found in my work slip back and forth between the present and past eras. The recirculation of these visual cues found in fashion or pop culture is indicative of the cyclical nature of cultural expectations, reemerging right as we feel we have moved beyond their constraints.
Through using motifs, ranging from iconic to mundane, I reinvent the often over-idealized female body through merging its fleshy forms with high heels, accessories, ancient fertility totems and food. My paintings flirt with the lines drawn between abstraction and recognition, celebration and critique, embodying a sense of conflict. The colors, patterns and familiar imagery found in my work slip back and forth between the present and past eras. The recirculation of these visual cues found in fashion or pop culture is indicative of the cyclical nature of cultural expectations, reemerging right as we feel we have moved beyond their constraints.
Through using motifs, ranging from iconic to mundane, I reinvent the often over-idealized female body through merging its fleshy forms with high heels, accessories, ancient fertility totems and food. My paintings flirt with the lines drawn between abstraction and recognition, celebration and critique, embodying a sense of conflict. The colors, patterns and familiar imagery found in my work slip back and forth between the present and past eras. The recirculation of these visual cues found in fashion or pop culture is indicative of the cyclical nature of cultural expectations, reemerging right as we feel we have moved beyond their constraints.