Christine Wuenschel

Christine Wuenschel's current drawings are a series of cropped views of the artist's body that she says, "little by little, gradually reveal me" to the viewer. Though reminiscent of Jenny Saville's earlier paintings in portraying large, stacked, expanses of flesh, and comparable to Bailey Doogan's drawings for their intense focus on the ripples and sags of the body that are glared over by conventional portraiture, Wuenschel's work is radically different. These drawings are transgressively personal and unknowably new. They inspire an exhilaration that skips past judgment, making you drop your baggage at her studio door.

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