Tête Inclinée
Monica Subidé, 2022, Oil on linen, 78 3/4" x 57 1/8"
Subidé’s use of muted colours and bold lines communicate a quiet yet profoundly reflective inner life to her subject, a woman who at first glance seems unreachable. This painting is of a piece with the artist’s more recent body of work, in which she balances abstraction with expression as she seeks to capture death in life and life in death. The subtlety of the work and the geometric nature of the composition echo the work of modernist artists like Vanessa Bell and Keith Vaughan, while offering an undeniably fresh perspective.