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Juliann Cydylo
Fertile Cleft, 2002
Cut paper
31 x 27 inches
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| Boston artist Juliann Cydylo is noted for her quietly
subversive observations on the human condition as reflected in the
constraints of Victorian costume. Ina new series of drawings made
using large sheets of black cut paper, Cydylo takes her work to a
new level of theatricality. Exploring a surreal zone where where
human forms are freed from the restraints of dress, Cydylo's
imaginary bodies are locked in hypnotic twists and turns that mirror
the operation of their inner machinery. By turning the inside
outside, Cydylo's works reach for a more complex level of biomorphic
abstraction and psychological tension. Referencing such diverse
sources as the classical modernism of Jean Miro and Jean Arp and the
heightened graphic dynamism of the native American Mimbres pottery,
Cydylo emphasizes the graphic appeal of interlocking elements
wrestling for coexistence. |
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