“Untitled” (America) | Art & Artists

Inspired by the sight of her shadow on a beach, Kay WalkingStick made a series of paintings featuring colorful silhouette portraits that allude to her multiple identities as an artist, a woman, a mother, and an Indigenous person of Cherokee ancestry. April Contemplating May portrays the artist in repose, fully nude, while a second figure, suggested only by the outstretched feet, shares this space of tranquility and sexual liberation. What appears to be a window is rather a reproduction of one of the artist’s landscape paintings: a stylized depiction of clouds made in response to reports of air pollution. The neon, acid hues in the work not only convey sensual euphoria but also hint at environmental catastrophe.