Hands and Eyes 1
Neal Vandenbergh
Graphite, pastel, colored pencil and acrylic on paper
40 x 30 in
Neal Vandenbergh’s new body of works on paper expands the artist’s rigorous drawing
practice. Warped hands, disembodied eyes and luminous drapery join dexterously
rendered snakes, transparent faces, politicians with ruby eyes, and floating heads in
glowing orbs to become repeating motifs that build towards something unsettling
beyond the frame. Hallucinatory revelation distorts both every day visual experience
and social relationships offering imagery that is at once alluring and alienating, personal
and political.
