Miss Boddy Nude resides at age 89 in a spacious, carpeted studio boasting 14-foot-high ceilings and two glass-topped rolling carts, as well as plants standing atop window ledges, cans of brushes and squeezed tubes of oil paint sitting atop an old school desk, as well as her finished canvas depicting herself nude on one of its walls.
Her signature work lies in her 1970s paintings depicting nude partners engaging in sexual relations, rendered with vibrant Neo-expressionist colors like red, orange and acid or bluish green Neo-expressionist colors which exude an almost luminescent quality. Close-up and deliberately skewed close-up views require viewers to piece together familiar shapes from limbs buttocks breasts vaginas into identifiable bodies reminiscent of Matisse’s. PAFA presents an exquisitely curated retrospective spanning six decades that also features early Ab-Ex works; quick sinuous line studies; locker room series depictions where women adjust dresses or check weight on scales are completely captivating – truly captivating works which span six decades of career highlights!
