Cute Outfit
1998
Sue Williams's *Cute Outfit* is a dynamic painting executed in oil and acrylic on canvas, characteristic of her bold, gestural style that blends figuration with abstraction. The work features her signature layering of frenetic lines, cartoonish forms, and raw, energetic mark-making that simultaneously unsettles and engages the viewer. Williams's irreverent visual language challenges conventional representations of the body and everyday experience with a distinctly provocative wit.
- Medium
- oil and acrylic on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 5, 2017
Artists in conversation
Nicole Eisenman
American · b. 1965
Eisenman similarly blends figurative painting with cartoonish, irreverent mark making and a feminist perspective that challenges conventional body representation. Her gestural canvases share Williams's raw energy, satirical wit, and willingness to merge abstraction with provocative figuration.
Carroll Dunham
American · b. 1949
Dunham's work combines frenetic, cartoonish figuration with bold gestural brushwork and an unsettling yet playful visual language that closely parallels Williams's approach in Cute Outfit. Both artists draw on Pop Art influences while pushing figuration into psychologically charged, neo expressionist territory.
Amy Sillman
American · b. 1955
Sillman creates oil and acrylic paintings that layer energetic line work with shifting figurative forms and a sardonic humor that echoes the dynamic mark making and feminist undertones of Williams's practice. Her canvases share the same tension between abstraction and bodily representation found in Cute Outfit.
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