Curtain Figure
1999 · Acrylic paint on canvas
support: 2032 x 1832 x 44 mm
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Nicola Tyson
1960
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Nicola Tyson paints figurative works she terms psycho-figuration, using distorted human forms to interrogate identity, gender, and sexuality. Her paintings employ gestural abstraction and exaggerated bodily distortion to expose the psychological and social pressures embedded in representation itself. Based in New York, Tyson's practice resists stable figuration, instead treating the body as a site of formal instability and conceptual ambiguity.
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Chelsea College of Art and Design
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