Hybrid
2011
Caroline Walker's "Hybrid" is an oil painting on board that exemplifies her distinctive approach to figurative art, which often explores themes of vulnerability and the human form through intimate, closely observed compositions. The work demonstrates Walker's characteristic technical skill in rendering flesh tones and textures with a keen attention to psychological nuance and bodily presence. Her practice frequently engages with concepts of identity and the intersection of the organic and constructed, reflected in the painting's title and conceptual framework.
- Medium
- oil on board
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 11, 2024
Lot 97
Artists in conversation
Jenny Saville
British · b. 1970
Saville's large scale figurative oil paintings share Walker's unflinching examination of the human body, rendering flesh with visceral intensity and psychological weight while exploring vulnerability and bodily presence in intimate compositions.
Cecily Brown
British · b. 1969
Brown's figurative oil paintings similarly merge organic human forms with psychological tension and an ethereal mood, using expressive brushwork to blur boundaries between the corporeal and the constructed in ways that echo Walker's hybrid sensibility.
Marlene Dumas
South African · b. 1953
Dumas creates intimate figurative works that foreground vulnerability, identity, and psychological nuance through carefully observed flesh tones and textures, sharing Walker's preoccupation with the emotional and conceptual dimensions of the human form.
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