John Currin: Little Nude 1999 Mark Tansey’s reverential friendships with

Mark Tansey’s reverential friendships with Soviet Socialist Realist and Chinese painters

and folding chairs

the inaugural presentation of the artist’s 2024 series

featuring gardens and extensive public programming by the artist’s nonprofit

the year of the exhibition

John Currin: Little Nude 1999 Mark Tansey’s reverential friendships withWith inspirations as diverse as old master portraits, 1950s pinup photography, pornography, and B movies, John Currin produces challengingly perverse images of women, from lusty nymphs to dour matrons. Little Nude evinces his use of classical compositional techniques to portray highly charged social and sexual taboos. Consistent throughout his work is the search for the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque are held in perfect balance.