People's Choice Award
Michael Reedy
(Ann Arbor, Michigan USA)
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The Kiss, Mixed media on paper, 47" x 28"
In my most recent drawings I have revisited the timeless themes of life, death, and the human condition. This new interest in the expulsion and the fall of man has been paired with my prior leanings, which have long been rooted in fringe images of the body, medical illustration, ornamentation, dark comedy, and the uncanny. These inevitable aspects of existence bring to mind the most tragic, and most beautiful, images of the body. It is this transitional moment -full of both grace and pain - that I wish to prod and indulge.