Monday, October 3, 2016

Dorothea Tanning at Alison Jacques


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Symbols fraying into the abstraction that nurses innuendo. Is Frida Kahlo not forebear to Alice Tippit's ambiguous buttholes; is not Tanning and the ambiguity premising its surrealism, more than Frankenthaler, prescient in Sillman's bodied abstraction.