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Christine Dean
Female Masculinity
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Oil on linen
50 x 70 cm
2025
This candy coloured painting using oil on linen examines two key examples of Australian hard-edge abstraction from the era of The Field exhibition. Contemporary theorists refer to this period of art history as the penultimate chapter of homosocial late modernism. The title 'Female Masculinity' aims to recoupe the excess libido of hard-edge painting with the aim of judiciously redistributing it across a spectrum of genders.
Christine Dean is an artist and educator who commenced exhibiting in 1988. Her work explores the tropes surrounding the intersection of hard-edge abstraction and pluralistic concepts of gender expression.
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$1,500