room for painting 04 - Amy Sudarsky, naked: recent paintings

The fourth exhibition in the room for painting showcases the work of Boston painter Amy Sudarsky. Sudarsky adopts the timeless discipline of painting from the live model and recasts the image of the nude in an altogether timely mode. She achieves a specificity of the moment without reliance on na... Read more

The fourth exhibition in the room for painting showcases the work of Boston painter Amy Sudarsky. Sudarsky adopts the timeless discipline of painting from the live model and recasts the image of the nude in an altogether timely mode. She achieves a specificity of the moment without reliance on narrative device or datable props; without exaggerated foreshortening and cropping, or overt expressionism. Sudarsky’s immediacy comes primarily from her understanding of painting’s ability to reveal depth through unequivocal surface. The open gazes and postures of her sitters serve to underscore the ethic of exposure she maintains in her uncompromising handling of the paint itself, an acceptance that there is nowhere to hide. The result is a figuration not so much of the nude as of the naked, wherein vulnerability is a strength and mortality a virtue.