The Goddess grins
The Goddess grins
Albert Tucker and the female image
26 May - 28 October 2007
Venue: Heide III: Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery
Curator: Dr Sheridan Palmer
Image of modern evil: Spring in Fitzroy 1943
oil on canvas on plywood
58.7 x 69.0 cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Gift of the artist 1982
© Barbara Tucker
The Goddess grins explores Albert Tucker’s complex and varied representations of women over a period of seven decades. Tucker used the female image as an allegory of immorality and of the human condition as it is dehumanised under pressure. This exhibition shows how Tucker empowered women as valued and dynamic individuals in his portraits, photographs and in his Images of Modern Evil as a social force within the geographic space of the city.
Guest Curator Dr Sheridan Palmer brings together some of Tucker’s most expressive and intimate paintings of the female image, with over 50 paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures from the 1930s to the 1990s. The Goddess grins charts Tucker’s progress as a self-taught, highly competent and orthodox young artist, through to his major investigations cast towards the world view.
GOVERNMENT PARTNER
provided by the Victorian Government
