Sojourner Truth Parsons I believe, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
121,9 x 121,9 cm
Sojourner Truth Parsons’ paintings have a powerful sense of narrative intimacy, where we, as viewers, experience highly personal yet fictional slices of life. Like classical film noirs, her works combine dark surfaces, shadows, and fractured personas in a mix of illusion and desire. They incorporate psychic dramas where the drive for unity and completion is balanced by the pleasures of a dynamic multiplicity. While her marks and brushstrokes highlight her painting process, her fields of color, repetitions, reflections, and her figures’ minimal forms engender a visceral, emotional subjectivity.