“Madame May with Necklegs”
Date
1974
Credits
Format
- Illustration 227
Type of Work
- Finished work 5123
Media
- acrylic 6
Dimensions
39 × 2 in
Links
"Barbara Rossi’s paintings from the 1960s and 1970s were primarily abstract fields of flat, glowing color, but sprinkled with staring eyeballs or bulbous noses that subtly came together to form humanoid visages. Eventually she began experimenting with reverse-painted Plexiglas, and transitioned into a flat, clear, high-contrast aesthetic. In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s Rossi became increasingly interested in Indian painting. Although they remain largely abstract, Rossi’s works from this time feature sharply-rendered “characters” made out of noodle-like shapes, sometimes with appendages resembling heads or limbs, inhabiting vaguely architectural spaces fitted with stairs, corners, and furniture, not unlike the simple spaces of Indian painting."— http://chicagoimagists.com/#artists/barbararossi
