The three works, which the artist refers to as her 3-D silver, chalk, and charcoal drawings, are visually rich ruminations on violence and death counterpointed by
evocations of flight and transcendence.
The intermundial character of air travel, its uncanny
evocations of birth and death and limbo, male for a lot of psychic drama, and it's all so clearly legible, flickering on the faces of travelers: relief, exhaustion, anxiety, bewilderment, joy.
In 1984, when Yugoslavian-born Prvulovic settled in the United States, the specific locations depicted in the first paintings in this series became more generic
evocations of the machine age.
These
evocations of domestic strife and Christian martyrdom wouldn't seem out of place in a neo-Expressionist painting, but it was surprising to encounter them within a cool, ironic critique of Minimalist sculpture.
These range from the grotesque to the classical, and, as their titles imply, aren't so much portraits as
evocations of archetypes - scholar, gargoyle, prince, satyr, Apollo, and so on.
Dominated by patche of primary colors, with yellow and reds floating on a blue nocturnal ground sparingly interspersed with shapes simultaneously suggesting stars and flowers, these could almost be kitsch
evocations of nativity scenes.
Somewhat like Joseph Cornell's
evocations of memory and loss, they displace sentimentality while privileging personal taste and experience, creating a highly idiosyncratic response to an ephemeral world.
Tsiaras (who, until recently seemed essentially pledged to the articulation of the sensual and primordial in works replete with
evocations of the unconscious) appears now to have taken on the exploration of formal and material issues in painting as well.
Since they look alike as well, you can, as you prefer, find implications of incest or
evocations of multiple personalities.
