Symmetrical Bodies examines the female form as a contemporary site for cultural ideals of beauty, desire, and perfection, rendering the body unsettling and sublime. Blending photography, painting, and printmaking, pixelated mass imagery meets hand-painted portrait traditions. Mirrored halves create new symmetrical bodies that expose and intensify extreme idealizations of femininity.
Read Saul Ostrow's Boyden Gallery exhibition catalog essay "From the Domestic to the Glamorized" under Bibliography
Symmetrical Bodies. Small works are acrylic and wax painting with image transfer on paper mounted on wood panel (7" x 5" each).
(left) Solo exhibition at gallery neptune & brown, Washington, DC (2025)
(left) Solo exhibition at gallery neptune & brown, Washington, DC (2025)
