Oil, Encaustic
Priscilla Derven's portraits can be startling; not quite what you expect. It almost seems that you've looked around quickly and caught a glimpse of someone's face, frozen in mid-motion or in mid-sentence. You look again and see masses of color and geometric planes. These portraits convey much more than the subject's appearance. The point of view shifts in unexpected ways. You're looking up, seeing throats and chins, or down upon tops of heads. The people in these paintings seem to be completely unselfconscious, with no apparent awareness of an observer.
Paintings in the Bathers series are populated by people at the beach, eyes averted from us and each other, individuals inhabiting a solitary universe.
Derven's encaustic canvases have a depth and richness of color, which are not just "happy accidents," but the product of layers of complex construction and destruction; of adding and subtracting material, repeating again and again, until the desired result is achieved. One looks into these paintings, not at them.
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Face 10-10
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| Face 10-1
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| Face 10-9
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Face 10-11
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| Face 10-12
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| Face 10-13
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Face 10-2
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| Face 10-3
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| Face 10-4
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Face 10-5
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| Face 10-6
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| Face 10-7
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Face 10-8
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| Face 10-14
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| POTA 4
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POTA 5
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| POTA 12
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| RBOC 39
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RBOC 24
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| RBOC 28
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| RBOC 32
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Reflections
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| Sand Castle
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| Woman and Children
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Shades
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| Woman and Girl
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