Buffalo Check, 2012
Elena Sisto’s paintings are portraits of young women artists. Figures appear in the picture frame fragment-like, as if they are being observed through a wandering camera lens, which stops when a telling gesture or a significant juncture of planes, objects, and patterns comes into view. While this results, occasionally, in traditional head-and-shoulders portraiture, most of the figures are cropped, often to the point of abstraction. These selective glimpses and well-chosen clues are what Sisto offers to skillfully both protect and reveal what she will about her subjects.
You still have a few more days to see “Between Silver Light and Orange Shadow” at
Lori Bookstein Fine Arts, 138 Tenth Ave. in Chelsea. Sisto’s idiosyncratic and unconventional portraits are on view through May 25.
See the artist’s
Guggenheim Fellow profile here.
Tear, 2012
Red Sweater, 2013 Blue Shirt, 2013
Snafu, 2011
Hat, 2013 Ear, 2013
At Midnight, 2010
Tattersall, 2013
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