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Julie Speed
"Julie Speed's craftsmanship and attention to detail bring to mind the work of painters from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Renaissance. Unlike those artists, however, Speed is inspired by an almost limitless number of easily available sources and is unencumbered by the sexual and societal restrictions of past centuries, which gives her the freedom to paint what she wants and the way she wants. This places her body of work squarely in the present. Utilizing her keen sense of the absurd, Speed ponders the big questions - the role of religion, isolation and longing, sexuality, sin and guilt - with a sly, sometimes black, sense of humor and a steadfast refusal to offer the viewer any tidy resolutions." "To bring Speed's work to a wider audience, this illustrated volume presents one hundred color plates of her oil paintings, constructions and works on paper. Accompanying the plates...
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