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Artworks
Allison Katz
NO SI LLA, 2020Oil on canvas78 3/4 x 98 3/8 inches
200 x 250 cmFurther images
NO SI LLA is a superb large painting that includes the use of artist’s signature. Operating on the level of double entendre or riddle, Katz’s works mine the gaps between...NO SI LLA is a superb large painting that includes the use of artist’s signature. Operating on the level of double entendre or riddle, Katz’s works mine the gaps between the visual and the verbal, often with humorous wit, as exemplified in the wordplay of her titles. These include frequent riffs on her own name that, along with the use of her signature as a visual element, speak to a self-referential thread running throughout her work. Katz’s work addresses the unavoidable double-bind of subjectivity, in which the self is ever-present regardless of whatever attempts are employed to disrupt the voice.
