2009.23, Frances Bagley, Tiny Dancer, 2008, mixed media

In Tiny Dancer, Dallas artist Frances Bagley suggests the human body through semi-abstract forms that she shrouds with an opaque membrane reminiscent of skin or clothing. Bagley's use of draped forms speaks to her interest in fabric, both as a means for covering or disguising a form, and as a means for making a form visible and identifiable through expressed style or demonstrated affiliation. 

In her practice, the artist uses scale and material to allude to the human body, without ever fully rendering a complete representational figure. While she is interested in the human form as a universal subject, her use of abstraction disrupts our ability to fully recognize the figure, pointing to a disjunction between true identity and the identity one wears in public.

Elise Armani, DMA Label text, Body Ego, 2018.

Until 2009: Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX [1]

From 2009: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above

[1] See copy of check #13869 in Collections Records Objects File 20009.23

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