"Posturing"

About

The word “posturing” is defined as calculated or affectatious behavior: aware of oneself and projecting a deliberate, specified image. For Kathy Osborn—her posturing is generated from a stage, a scene. She collects vintage dollhouses and sets up intricate vignettes in her studio. Each is precisely lit to add drama to the images she produces. Characters reside within; their relationships are the mystery. There is an Americana vibe–household interactions from the 1950s and 1960s. For Bradley Wood—his posturing is his stated approach to his paintings as if a playwright. He crafts what is “going on in the mind, or internal monologues” for each subject, which he considers “actors.” While the figures in Wood’s paintings remain anonymous, their energy is palpable—alluding to the moods, reactions and impulses that live within us all, those inner worlds that thrive just beyond the surface.