Alli Good
Jun 9, 2009
Each of these beauties is disturbing because they make the viewer become so self aware. Are we a sloppy, flabby couple making out in the corner? Does my scabby Exema really look like scales are consuming my legs? Damn, that guy from the last night looks strangely similar to fish-boy, limp.
Alli Good is an Asheville artist I discovered in a newish gallery that condones all sort of self expression, hideous portraits included. The artist immediately gave off the air of being libidinous naturally, shadowed by extreme perception of reality. Perhaps she isn’t the type to get lost in a nice boy’s smile, but notices the hairs sprouting from his ear mole and can’t look away. Any way you spin it, she’s a feminist and the illustrations are slightly hostile, but they’d be boring otherwise. Even the ugly occupy a physical space.
Her technical ability is best seen in the pen and ink section of her portfolio, they reflect her comic art influences. I do feel that some of this great line work, weight variation, slight shadows and skin creases, is lost in her paintings. I was also confused by the thick bold lines swimming around the silhouettes, then I realized Good was taking pleasure in the achieved, organic shape of the characters. She’s the comic book version of Jenny Saville who stated, “The compositions are filled with flesh, but the work has nothing to do with realism.” This last one gave my womanhood shivers.
PS. I got on a tangent and ran across Boo Saville’s blog which informed me that the Anthropology Research Facility of the University of Tennessee has an outdoor park where they study human decomposition. They call it The Body Farm. Endearing isn’t it?
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