Baker Overstreet - Contemporary Artists

Flattering Turtleneck

Flattering Turtleneck The Saatchi Gallery
 

Baker Overstreet

Flattering Turtleneck

2006
Acrylic on canvas

163 x 163 cm

Overstreet’s casual painting style belies an astounding authority and confidence. His solidly balanced compositions and fluid showoff gestures create precarious illusions where imagination and form meet. In Flattering Turtleneck a stylised portrait dissembles into contrasting associations to billboard signage, aboriginal hieroglyphs, and decorative patterning, flaunting Overstreet’s expansive lexicon of painterly vernacular.
 
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