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Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco-Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift-store objects. Considering the rich art history of female figuration and the concept of the male gaze, Bessone meditates on the dichotomies of form and gender, high and low, still and moving.
b. 1970
Bessone was born in 1970 in New York, and lives and works in Los Angeles. She has mounted recent solo exhibitions at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, and Veneklasen Werner, Berlin. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Frac Bretagne, Chateaugiron, France, The Saatchi bCollection, London, UK, Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada, and Rubell Family Collection, Miami.
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