Maureen St. Vincent, "Sister Slip", 2022, soft pastel on paper with artist frame, 45 x 34 x 3/4 in (114.3 x 86.4 x 1.9 cm)
Embedded within Maureen St. Vincent’s painted and shaped frames, apertures open onto worlds of imagery at once surreal and familiar. The ovular as a guiding, compositional form here isn’t incidental: executed in arcadian, textured pastels; soft fleshy pinks; and saturated swaths of vibrant hues, her drawings invoke the bodily while sliding over into interior visions, intense viscerality, sensuous symbolism, and unruly fantasies.
