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① Artwork:
Fruit Punch
This colored-pencil drawing is part of a new series in which the artist depicts a unique cast of off-the-grid, cartoonish characters who lounge, dance, and frolic naked in a world of richly-colored gradients and seductively textured details. As with this creature admiring a flower, McGowen’s buoyant artworks offer a utopia free from the hardships of industrialized society.
Payton McGowen makes soft-textured colored pencil drawings of frolicking figures. Her characters exist in a world without clothing—a free and natural world where societal norms don’t exist, nor do the ever-spinning wheels of Capitalism. These artworks represent daydreams filled with relaxation, in which McGowen plays the lead role in her personal utopia.
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③ Artist:
Payton McGowen makes soft-textured colored pencil drawings of figures frolicking, lounging and preparing for spring. Her characters exist in a world without clothing—a free and natural world where societal norms don’t exist, nor do the ever-spinning wheels of Capitalism. McGowen’s artworks represent daydreams filled with relaxation, in which she plays the lead role. It’s a slow and simplistic world without errands, lists, and schedules, where one can sleep with flowers and live in a personal utopia.
Payton McGowen lives and works in Austin, Texas.
She recently mounted solo exhibitions at Martha's Contemporary in 2022 and 2020.
McGowen was also featured in a group show at Martha's Contemporary in 2022.
This colored-pencil drawing is part of a new series in which the artist depicts a unique cast of off-the-grid, cartoonish characters who lounge, dance, and frolic naked in a world of richly-colored gradients and seductively textured details.More
- Framed: 16.0 x 20.0 in.
