04 March - 01 April 1999
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Through the traditional medium of figurative painting, Nicola Tyson conducts an examination of gender and sexuality. For this exhibition, Tyson has switched from oil to acrylic. The figures are closer to her charcoal and graphite drawings in terms of their spontaneity and immediacy. In Top, libidinous fragments spin through a chaotic landscape. View #1 introduces the fecund metaphor of landscape as a signifier of the body, and the environment is as much an ejaculatory eruption as the figures themselves.