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Thomas on a Yellow Towel
2022
This intimate gouache on paper depicts a figure seen from behind, reclining on a vivid yellow towel against a warm, sun-bleached beach setting. Truax employs a confident, blocky painterly style with a bold warm palette of burnt orange, sandy yellows, and muted lavenders to evoke a languid moment of leisure by the sea. The cropped, close vantage point and gestural handling of the figure give the work an immediate and sensual quality. The work is presented framed in a white float frame.
- Medium
- Gouache on paper
- Dimensions
Notes
Framed dimensions: 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (31.75 x 41.91 cm). White float frame.
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Amy Sillman
American · b. 1955
Sillman works in painting and drawing with layered gestural surfaces that oscillate between figuration and abstraction, closely mirroring Truax's approach to mark-making and the tension between representation and dissolution.
David Reed
American · b. 1946
Reed builds richly layered painted surfaces that engage both gestural process and representational reference, sharing Truax's investment in the dialogue between Abstract Expressionist heritage and contemporary process-based painting.
Cecily Brown
British · b. 1969
Brown creates densely layered paintings where gestural abstraction and representational imagery dissolve into one another, drawing on American landscape and Abstract Expressionist traditions in ways that parallel Truax's hovering between legibility and dissolution.
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