About the artist

 

Roxanne Crane is a Connecticut based artist and art therapist. She has trained at the University of Connecticut, Massachusetts College of Art, and Albertus Magnus College. Roxanne’s images utilize multiple media forms, with an emphasis on painting, drawing, and collage. She is inspired by folklore and surrealism, and enjoys playing with spatial relationships, color, and line.

 

Why this show?

​In her words:

 

“As an artist, I am drawn to the aesthetic power of the human figure and the capacity for artistic images to grapple with the great complexity of human experience. As an artist who also happens to be female, I am intrigued by the imbalance in depictions of male and female nudity as well as the imbalance in the perception and welcoming of male and female artists. The call for this show appealed to me for precisely this reason, and because I felt an affinity for the idea of celebrating positive portrayals of masculinity. These images celebrate the beauty of the human form, while exploring the complex, multidimensional, and ultimately elusive concept of masculinity. For this series I utilized graceful, elegant, and delicate line work, which moves in concert with the lines and shapes of the male body, while juxtaposing “conventional” concepts of masculinity. While the intention of playing with layers and duality went into the creation of these images, much like notions of gender and the resulting roles, they are subject to individual interpretation.”