TitleIntersection
Artist
Lorraine Shemesh
(American, b. 1949)
Date2007
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 72 1/4 x 52 1/4 in.
Framed: 73 1/4 x 53 1/4 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Anonymous gift
Object number2022.2
Label TextThis work is part of Shemesh’s Intersections series in which she made dramatic, life-size paintings of two dancers in a unique modality of motion and stillness. She has noted that her love and ever-deepening interest in dance have evolved from her experience dancing as a child. In her vision of these dancers in their black and white unitards, she creates dialectical gestures of bodies in motion that are intimate, sometimes suggesting the erotic – at once tucked into each other, almost uroborically – while they maintain their formal dance poses and muscular realism. Collections
- New Acquisitions 2022
