Angela Dufresne “Long and Short Shots”

Yossi Milo Gallery

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Yossi Milo Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Angela Dufresne.

Dufresne’s paintings vibrate with atomistic energy in which figure and atmosphere have equivalent force. Viewers of her large-scale, “long-shot” paintings are encouraged to take the position of a camera, panning across the canvas in order to catch all the glorious, sometimes hidden details, such as the sudden appearance of a James Ensor–like mask, with scary horns and a grimace or, tucked away in a thick crowd, a tiny scene of a monkey riding a dog, Kentucky Derby style. Erotic body parts, like so many prosthetic devices, pepper the canvas: fiery nipples; flying phalluses; muscular buttocks; exposed, sometimes non-gender specific genitals; beckoning eyes and hands. But we glimpse them as if through a zoetrope, flickering past us in phases of motion as we travel across the projection screen of Dufresne’s quixotic mind.