Baker Overstreet - Contemporary Artists

Faberge Luvas

Faberge Luvas The Saatchi Gallery
 

Baker Overstreet

Faberge Luvas

2006-2007
Acrylic on canvas

147.3 x 172.7cm

Overstreet’s Faberge Luvas broaches glamour and mystery with crudely rendered gusto. Roughly approximating a grand hall interior with thick textured brushwork in purple and orange,
Overstreet’s canvas operates as a stage set for narrative and painterly action. Setting two African shield-like forms against a garishly painted background, a band of dirty pink secures the
surface’s flatness while the central diamond shape forces an awkward perspective. Looming over the scene, a Masonic emblem infuses all with secretive mystical authority.
 
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