JULIE CROZAT

The Vices

 

 

 

Crozat's flair for luridly stylized spectacles is evidenced in her severed head scenes such as Anger, in which a prim woman holds the startled looking head of middle-aged man (Crozat's husband, artist Michael Wilmon), while clutching a bloody knife with her other hand. The Sins of Salome is loosely based on the Biblical tale of Salome's demand for John the Baptist's head on a platter, only this Salome is a '60s strumpet with candles, incense and Jimi Hendrix LPs, and the severed head (Wilmon again) shares a platter with a freshly rolled joint. The only virtue painting, Redemption, is of a distraught blonde with hands clasped in prayer. In true local fashion, her view is critical yet celebratory.

by D. Eric Bookhardt Gambit 9-16-2003

 

Anger 40" x 30", oil on canvas, 2000   Anger (detail) 40" x 30", oil on canvas, 2000   Sloth 48" x 36", oil on canvas 2002   Envy 40" x 30", oil on canvas, 2001     The Emperor Has No Pants Louisiana Dismantled April-May 2003

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