Meet 2 New Artists: Anna Bogomolova and Jenna Fraser

Meet 2 new graduate artists:

Anna Bogomolova: The doubleness of Bogomolova’s sculptures makes one look, then look again. The figures, quivering between the human, animal and contrived, are made close to the ground, lying on it or curving toward it. Eyes shut, they seem to be undergoing an internal transfiguration; these androgynes manifest the artist’s continuity of concern: being. They have a strain of the surreal like Dorothea Tanning’s soft sculptures, and the rawness of Louise Bourgeois' textile sculptures which veer from the figurative to the abstract. Bogomolova, however, works with harder materials such as clay, and only in nude and light pink tones. In doing so, the artist re-expresses the vulnerability of the human form to generative and fascinating effect.

Jenna Fraser: With a limited cast against a bare background, Jenna Fraser summons the scene of the desert, the western and the tarot. Emphasis is on the solidity of the characters’ outlines - lobster, mountain or man - which are all positioned frontally. Fraser’s delineated silhouettes in ‘The Whole World Series’ and ‘Small Tarot Deck’ are not unlike the hewn lines of an image by Georg Baselitz. The artist will use earthly tones with oil paints, switching to lucid yellows, blues and reds in pen drawings which foreground the simplicity of the materials. Referentially, these paintings begin the story; it’s up to the viewer to complete it.

Being V by Anna Bogomolova