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Artists continue to critique art and society. While many works seduce and dazzle the eye, they refuse simplistic interpretations. For example, Fred Tomaselli’s large collage of pills, flowers, and hands, is vibrant in design, while the meaning of this combination of real and photographed elements and its stance on transcendence in American painting is complex. Much of this work, like the word "fresh,” is bold, audacious, brazen, and indiscreet, thumbing its nose at established precedents as a means of rejuvenating them from an alternative perspective. Cecily Brown subverts the machismo associated with abstract expressionism by creating similarly luscious, gestural paintings, filled with sexual energy from a young woman’s perspective at the turn of the twenty-first century. Works such as Father of the Bride, 1999, display a desire to embrace sexuality on her own terms, which is not beholden to a patriarchal view that disempowers women.
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