Mar 2, 2024
Gladys Nilsson at Parker Gallery
more so the second time around. The artist is a heavy-hitting world builder with chops developed over several decades. This is the type of work that is new every time you look at it. The figures in her paintings are exuberantly aloof as they twist and weave, at once becoming the landscape while influencing and shaping it in their own image. The perverted little cherubs are all curves, boobs and buttcheeks, and more often than not, their constituent parts merge at infinite crotches in the shape of a “Y”. Why? Because that convergence is where funny and endearing happen, because we all have those convergences and none of us really know why...
Gladys Nilsson Exhibition verjoyed as I was to see Glad…
