Gideon Bok
Ada with blue nitrile gloves, 2020
oil on linen
12 5/6 x 12 5/6 inches
Price: $3,000 / Offered here at: $2,400

Gideon Bok’s recent body of work focuses on a group of portraits of family and friends. Ada with blue nitrile gloves, a portrait of Gideon’s oldest daughter in a leopard costume wearing a blue glove, is related to this body of work. In Ada, Bok presents a new palette. The artist states, “Lately, I’ve been trying to find ways to get [artist Meghan Brady’s] sense of color into my paintings. After the Women’s March of 2017, I stole Meghan’s sign that she made for the march, which she made with some of her signature colors of neon pink, bright blues and orange. I love the colors and the spirit of the sign, which depicts the classical feminist fist and the words ‘sisterhood is powerful.’ I was and have been moved and affected by how the Trump administration has really mobilized feminism in our culture and the rise of the MeToo movement, Time’s Up, Black Lives Matter and Antifa… I put the sign in my studio and use it as a recurring theme, as well as a high keyed color moment to try to juice up the color in the painting.” Here, Ada (along with Uncle Charlie, a full length human skeleton who is also featured among the portraits), seems to be working at her own painting table. Gideon’s small, 12 x 12 inch canvas possesses a topsy-turvy, stacked constructivism similar to Marc Chagall in Vitebsk.