Georgina Gratrix: Woman V - SOLD

Georgina Gratrix (b 1982)
Woman V - 2008
Oil on canvas
154,5 x 114,5 cm
Sold - 2012

Image courtesy of Whatiftheworld Gallery

Gratrix’s portraits range from socialite ‘cover-girls’, where she examines the cult of celebrity, to the re-mixing of Old Masters. She challenges the aesthetic hierarchies within art history in her Woman Wallpaper series by translating famous paintings of women by Modern icons into stripes. Commenting on the more serious nature of these paintings, she said: Yes, they were quite a lot more calculated…. I wanted to make a painting that was completely banal on one level - to be wallpaper - but also incredibly funny and angry a little too. Her reply also hints at her desire to tease these sacrosanct masters for objectifying women in such a chauvinistic fashion, by deconstructing their masterpieces.