Falon Stutzman's debut exhibition, Woman Having a Hard Time, showcases ten new paintings that capture emotional depth through flattened perspectives and cartoonish figures. Her protagonists, evoking a shared girlhood, navigate experiences filled with internal pressure while expressing both comedy and pathos. With oil and flashe, Stutzman's environments serve to reveal emotional truths, employing a color palette of queasy peaches, bleached yellows, and bruised blues. Each painting, titled in an instructional manner, compresses lived experiences into brief, captionable moments, showcasing Stutzman's unique approach to portraying emotion as an event of the body.
Falon Stutzman develops a language of flattened perspective, bruised color, and big-eyed emotional states, congealing around a cartoonish archetype of personhood that's both absurd and uncomfortably familiar.
Stutzman's figures appear to have wandered out of some shared, subterranean girlhood: recognizable in posture and gesture, yet unplaceable in appearance.
Color, too, performs psychological work. Stutzman's palette comprises queasy peaches, bleached yellows, and bruised blues.
The painting titles echo the visual grammar of instruction manuals or old children's books -- flattening experience into captionable moments.
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