Bonnie Collura & Amy Morken

The work of Bonnie Collura & Amy Morken - A Symptom of Beauty (obsessions on an ideal) at the Claire Oliver Gallery 513 West 26th Street drew on figurative imagery exploring aspects of femininity, mythology and art history. Collura's work offered a baroque sickly/sweet confection which was both exhilarating and nauseating. Her exuberant use of materials (wax, metal, canvas, wood, paint etc)played with figurative abstraction to deconstruct aspects of desire and the male/female body.

Amy Morken's figurative paintings depict Bosch like senarios only played out with a cast of contemporary female monster/hybrids which were playful, witty and disturbing. I enjoyed both of these artists works.