Gwyneth Scally: Jelly
Tucson artist Gwyneth Scally produces humorous, sometimes slightly disturbing, surreal anthropomorphic images that express human and modern culture's discomfort with the biological realities and limitations of the body. Her work explores the horror and the humor of attempting to control a fragile and continually deteriorating corporeal form.
Scally's figurative works use bodily metaphor to describe cultural and psychological experience. Often her figures are depicted in the act of biting themselves or others - a visualization of the desire for communication and a comment on the permeability of the skin to environmental nutrients and contaminants. Such works echo the susceptibility of the individual to cultural ideas, prejudices and politics, and consumerism and fear.
Scally creates underlying textures in her paintings that resemble the movement of fluids, or the surfaces of skin, tissues. The paintings' surfaces have a living, animal quality in the gestural buildup of underlying mediums. This exhibition will be an installation including paintings and fiberglass sculpture.
