The Ventriloquist is a painting about cycles of abuse.
 

The Ventriloquist

The Ventriloquist is a painting about cycles of abuse. In the artwork, the Marquis de Sade stands beside his dearly beloved in the form of a doll. Sticking out of his abdomen are large sewing pins which he stabs into the doll’s phrenology head, aiming specifically at certain areas to manipulate her entirely. A black oil drips from his mouth representing verbal abuses which she will eventually mirror herself like some ventriloquist doll paying it forward.

  • Oil on canvas

  • 36”x48”

  • (2008)

This painting was exhibited at Irvine Contemporary in Washington (2008), DC; and sold at Antebellum Gallery in Los Angeles (2009), CA.