Sylvia Sleigh
I made a point of finding models [in the 60s], and I painted them as portraits, not as sex objects, but sympathetically as intelligent and admired, not as women had so often been depicted as unindividuated houris [beautiful young women]. I had noted from my childhood that there were always pictures of beautiful women but very few of handsome men, so I thought it would be truly fair to paint handsome men for women.
- Sylvia Sleigh
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I den kommende utstillingsperioden tilegner Kunstnernes Hus begge overlyssalene til en første, unik presentasjon av den amerikanske kunstneren Sylvia Sleighs malerier. Den posthume separatutstillingen er den hittil mest omfattende og presenterer arbeider fra et tidsspenn på over seksti år. Utvalget er bredt sammensatt slik at Sleighs virksomhet skal fremstå som en helhet og i all sin kompleksitet.
