My choice for this weeks artist is Sarah Kaufman, not only because she is a VCU alumni but because her work manages to merge the human body with the abstract color and light around it. By using flesh as a source of light and reflection, Kaufman is able to create stunning portraits of the raw human self. In her series "Moments of Absorption" Kaufman captures strangers in their most personal spaces and with their most personal clothes, their bare flesh.
We were dared this week to do a similar project and to capture the bare essence of light and color and the human body, I decided to live up to this dare and start working on my own project entitled "Naked not Nude". By appropriating Kaufman's wonderful use of light and color associated with bare flesh, I created works that I hope to evoke similar feelings in the viewer as Sarah Kaufman manages to do.
The use of low light soft glow that Kaufman seems to be fond of creates a semblance of classical painting style light. the soft colors and the glow cast from the bare flesh creates a scene of such soft caressing glow that the viewer begins to feel the light on their skin and feels the comfort of a human in his/her most comfortable state.
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