ANNETTE BEZOR
Annette Bezor’s images of women from the history of Western art and popular culture consider the politics of gender and painting as an act of manipulation and representation. Bezor attended the South Australian School of Art, Adelaide (1974-1977), exhibiting in the Young Artists Exhibition in Adelaide (1977) and solo exhibitions at the Luba Bilu Gallery in Melbourne from the late 1980s.
Her works appropriate images from popular photographs of famous and anonymous women and from paintings by artists such as Raphael and the Pre-Raphaelites. Bezor’s painting considers the objectification of the female form and perceptions of beauty in high and low culture in Western society with her more recent portraits depicting digitally manipulated facial features (eyes, lips and cheeks), alluding to humanity’s preoccupation with the pursuit of ideal form and appearance.
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