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Allison Katz Puberty , 2024 Oil on linen, 31½ × 31½ in. Collection of the artist
This painting is based on a portrait of the artist as a young girl, taken by a friend of her grandmother. The vivid red of the hat conjures numerous associations: the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, the onset of menstruation as a path to womanhood, and the hormonal outbursts that accompany adolescence. By staging the appropriated photograph as a montage—through which it erupts into movement and multiplies— Katz points to development that is both innate and projected. —HJ
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