Self-Extinguishing Flickers of Charm: Graham Little
Max L. Feldman, Mousse
June 2023
Inspired by 1970s and 1980s fashion photography, Graham Little’s gouaches mostly present the dreamy looks of porcelain-pretty women. But they’re often trapped in a lonely world of aching sadness. Little’s is a backward glance at how concepts of beauty have undergone multiple fractures since the Renaissance, moving from ideas in the mind of God to scientific rules of proportion, matters of personal taste, and something more like anxious sublimity. […]