ALISON BLICKLE
Alison Blickle paints sensual oil paintings on canvas of women, usually naked or partially clothed, who marry elements of classical portraiture and landscape painting with a modern sensibility. Her subject sometimes looks away from the viewer, in transcendental paintings of man in awe of nature. Otherwise, women face the viewer with their classic beauty, framed by succulent landscapes, in warm or dark tones. Her most recent body of work ‘Medusa’ reclaims ancient myths and reimagines them in modern day Los Angeles. The series features strong women protagonists, flipping the tale of a monstrous Medusa on its head and reclaiming the feminine sexuality and power of this origin story. For Boil, Toil & Trouble the artist has created a new work called “Siren on Fruit”, which references the mythologies of sea nymphs and sirens, the seductress with the power to lure sailors to their watery graves