Divine Intervention 2018

Rose Freymuth-Frazier painted "Divine Intervention" with oils, and the painting is so full of light, it almost glows from within. The way the artist captures that cat’s fluffy fur… you can almost feel its softness. The cat sitting there, like a benevolent dictator, a golden gaze fixed on something beyond our view. And that doll, the unwilling subject of its gaze, it’s a funny little power dynamic. I can imagine Freymuth-Frazier in the studio, working layer upon layer to create such luminosity. The way she contrasts the silky fur with the smooth planes of the toy, it's a subtle dance between textures, a painterly ballet of light and form. Her color palette is restrained, yet the effect is dazzling. It’s a painting that acknowledges art history, like Courbet, but with a sly contemporary wink. Painters like Freymuth-Frazier and others are in an endless conversation, riffing off each other. Each painting is another little chapter.