ID#:
2010.0052.000001
Description:
Elizabeth Jameson
Born 1962
Forecasting Queen, 2009
Charcoal and pastel on paper
100 x 84 inches
Gift of the Artist
Elizabeth Jameson's interpretation of abstraction intersects with her research into costume history and clothing worn by people in hazardous occupations. In Forecasting Queen, the artist marries abstract and figurative art in a startling comment on fear and war. A medieval woman wearing a gas mask and a geometrically patterned garment looks out at the viewer, who is both repelled and attracted to the work through its velvety, pastel texture.
Jameson writes: "I investigate our attempts to protect ourselves from fear and the effects of these excessive efforts upon our lives through a series of objects and drawings that use restrictive and insulating garments as an iconographic metaphor for self—repression."
Born 1962
Forecasting Queen, 2009
Charcoal and pastel on paper
100 x 84 inches
Gift of the Artist
Elizabeth Jameson's interpretation of abstraction intersects with her research into costume history and clothing worn by people in hazardous occupations. In Forecasting Queen, the artist marries abstract and figurative art in a startling comment on fear and war. A medieval woman wearing a gas mask and a geometrically patterned garment looks out at the viewer, who is both repelled and attracted to the work through its velvety, pastel texture.
Jameson writes: "I investigate our attempts to protect ourselves from fear and the effects of these excessive efforts upon our lives through a series of objects and drawings that use restrictive and insulating garments as an iconographic metaphor for self—repression."
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