Glider
2024
Medium
oil on polyester
Measurements
198.2 × 213.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Jo Horgan AM and MECCA Brands, 2025
© Karen Black, courtesy of Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Karen Black’s work explores human relations through both physical and psychological encounters. Glider is a portrait of an abstracted female body in motion; the lateral movement of the figure almost appears to be passing through time. Black depicts a tessellated patchwork of figure and ground, creating a vessel in which to contain the spectrum of human emotions. Throughout Black’s paintings and ceramics, figures appear to move both easily and as if they are encountering resistance – traversing the complex interchange between the personal and the political.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: Glider. 2024 Karen Black
Accession Number
2025.674
Department
Contemporary Art