Feb 15, 2025 - Mar 2, 2025
Nikolas Soren Goodich
Masculine/Feminine
2021
Acrylic on plexiglass diptych on linen on wood panel
14 x 28 in.
Courtesy of the artist
“From the series Double Inverted Portraits, this 2021 diptych is a hand monoprint on layers of plexiglass assembled onto wood panels stretched with linen. The artwork contains symbolic profile portraits of either a man and a woman, or of a less gendered couple, but however it’s interpreted, the title, Masculine/Feminine, is taken from the 1966 French New Wave film by Jean-Luc Godard of the same name. The painting, like the film, examines complex ideas of gender relations. With its use of symmetry and asymmetry, one profile portrait opposes the other, with the “man” looking at himself, the “woman” looking away, or it could be the reverse, depending on how one chooses to see them, presenting a variety of possible age, race, and gender fluid narratives. As seen in the work in my first ever solo museum show at The Museum of Art and History in 2024, the plexiglass layers absorb ambient light, enriching its multiple stacked layers of painted glass surfaces and the plexiglass itself reflects the mood and light in whatever spaces it is installed in, offering myriad unique polyphonic viewing experiences.”
- Nikolas Soren Goodich, 2025
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