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Ivy Haldeman — Double Hand, Indexes Up
Ivy Haldeman

Double Hand, Indexes Up

2020

Two elegantly stylized hands emerge against a stark background, their index fingers pointing upward in a gesture that feels simultaneously commanding and ambiguous. Haldeman's signature precise, smooth rendering gives the hands an uncanny, almost surreal quality, stripped of individual identity while remaining strangely expressive. The work plays with the tension between the familiar and the unsettling, using a minimal palette and flattened forms to transform a simple human gesture into something quietly enigmatic.

Medium
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
Signed
Yes

Notes

Execution: Painted in 2020.

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Ivy Haldeman, Double Hand, Indexes Up, 2020

Two elegantly stylized hands emerge against a stark background, their index fingers pointing upward in a gesture that feels simultaneously commanding and ambiguous. Haldeman's signature precise, smooth rendering gives the hands an uncanny, almost surreal quality, stripped of individual identity while remaining strangely expressive. The work plays with the tension between the familiar and the unsettling, using a minimal palette and flattened forms to transform a simple human gesture into something quietly enigmatic.

Medium
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
61 x 41.9 cm
Year
2020
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Contemporary Painter, Acrylic On Canvas, Muted Palette, Emerging Artist, American Artist, Figurative Art, Pop Influence, Isolated Figure, Minimalist Composition, Surrealist Style, Whimsical Mood

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