
A Casas Colgadas style house designed for Zoe Cassavetes by Angela Pasolini, Long Island, NY c. 2046
2005
This large-scale oil on canvas conjures a world that has not yet arrived, placing a fictional dwelling inspired by the vertiginous cliff-hanging architecture of Cuenca's Casas Colgadas within the suburban sprawl of Long Island, projected forward to the year 2046. Dufresne attributes the design to a composite of real and imagined figures, Zoe Cassavetes and Angela Pasolini, collapsing cinematic lineage, feminist inheritance, and architectural fantasy into a single painted fiction. The handling of oil is characteristically loose and atmospheric, with Dufresne's brushwork generating a sense of heat and temporal dislocation, as though the image has been half-remembered from a film that was never made. At 137.2 by 182.9 centimetres, the canvas commands physical presence, pulling the viewer into its speculative geography. What distinguishes the work is its layered wit and its refusal of straightforward narrative. Dufresne operates in a tradition of figurative painters who treat the canvas as a space for cultural mythology, and this painting is among her more openly playful gestures, deploying the language of architectural rendering and utopian projection while undermining both with the warmth and instability of her paint surface. The titular specificity, complete with a credited designer, a named patron, a location, and a future date, functions as both straight-faced conceptual framing and gentle absurdism. Signed by the artist and offered through James Barron Art, this is a confident, intellectually generous work that rewards sustained attention from collectors drawn to figurative painting with genuine conceptual depth.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- James Barron Art, South Kent, CT
- Spotted At
- Gallery · James Barron ArtView on map
For Sale — $10000
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