Welcoming Peter, by Leah Bevilacqua to my collection.

The once-a-year opportunity for creative explosion of expression and bonafide haven for emerging artists alike, "Art All Night" lately yielded the newest member of my personal art collection: Peter, by Leah Bevilacqua. This piece exhibits mixed media on canvas, produced using a process that was new and slightly experimental for Bevilacqua. Prior to digitizing, printing, painting, drawing, gluing, the artist salvaged all the photography featured within the work from her Grandmother's attic. The piece revolves around social ideologies that society often pigeon-holes certain genres of society within. At the top of the work we see the sketch of an elderly man, and other media carved to form a similar shape in the upper left, with cages in nearby composition. These constraints of a trapped ideology that once a male reaches this peak in age, he is inevitably perceived as a "dirty old man". The two women posing feature Bevilaqcua's Grandmother at left. She placed robot heads atop of their perfect postures to perpetuate the sociological trauma of aesthetic awareness or, "posing for pictures that aren't really there", and the mechanical nature to which these behaviorisms become so engrained they can be mistaken for innate.
Whatever the constraint, the characterization or ideology that we experience in life and perceive through society, it all ends the same eternal way- in death. At first sight I had perceived the skeletal ribs and bones at bottom, I had mistaken it for the infinite black hole of death- the ultimate sewer drain. Perhaps I've watched The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle a few too many times, but I unmistakably found many inspired characteristics of the movies plot within this piece.

Artist, Leah Bevilacqua, at left.

Proud new owner!