Boomer Hung the Moon
Unframed, unstretched canvas oil painting 58 x 60 inches featuring an undergraduate in their dorm room. This dorm room was located in Boomer Hall at SIU in Carbondale, IL. Boomer Hall was demolished in 2012. This painting attempts to establish the nostalgia and memory of that place.
Responses (2)
July 28, 2022
Just love this! The colors in the shadows- to die for!!
July 27, 2022
Too figurative to be called abstract and too abstract to be called figurative, Natalie Pivoney’s Boomer Hung the Moon is an enigmatic painting with a sensuous implied human presence. The picture is markedly figurative except for the tangled mass of pink flesh-like brushstrokes on top of the bed. The identity of this bed-ridden abstract passage may forever remain a mystery. However, it brings to mind several possibilities. It appears human in nature: intertwined limbs locked together in a sensual embrace. Still, the abstraction is such that it could easily be a college student’s pile of unfolded clothes waiting to be stuffed into the drawer resting on the foot of the bed. This visual ambiguity and the endless debate it spawns give the painting a fascinating and tantalizing air of mystery.
July 27, 2022
Thank you! You are so good with words! 🙏❤️😄
- Category
- Semi-abstract, Figurative
- Type
- Painting - Unframed
- Materials
- Oil, Canvas
- Dimensions
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58.00 inches wide
60.00 inches tall
0.00 inches deep - Weight
- 5.00 lbs
- Location
- Elgin, IL, US
