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Since the late 1970’s, Francine Scialom Greenblatt's work has evolved in a way that, with the advantage of time and distance, can be read as a natural progression of ideas and beliefs. Consistently, she has championed painting, both in theory and application.

Her practice has been both considered and intuitive, where images have been coaxed and brought to life as courage and circumstance allowed. From figuration to abstraction, from politics to the most personal, the body facilitated a compellingly persuasive and visually vibrant response to issues at hand. Generously, FSG opens a diary where our common successes and failures can be shared.
Such dense psychological nuance would constitute a pointless complication in pornography, which aims solely to arouse, and the painting’s simmering emotional intensity invites metaphysical readings.

The artist seems to make the sexual urge a metaphor for aspiration to union with higher forces - God, the cosmos, creativity or ethical perfection. The confusion with pornography arises because Greenblatt equates eroticism with spirituality, and compels us to witness sexual intimacies to which we are not normally privy.

Such explicitness forces us into the role of voyeurs, and makes engagement with the paintings so fraught we loose sight of their symbolic dimension.”

Through Flesh We Move Toward The Light’ - Lloyd Pollak ARTTHROB REVIEW 2003
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