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There is also one magnificent, oversize papier-mache sculpture of McAndrew lolling in a bubble bath.
Here is a ferocious artist slaying both her internal demons and cultural taboos.
Turns out, it was her.
McAndrew is now the subject.
I can imagine this work sending profound messages to large audiences.
Flesh abounds, falls, forms a landscape.
She peers down the visage of her own body while withdrawing into her psyche.
The penetration echoes Jesus guiding the finger of Thomas into his open wound.
Hold You Tightfeatures a seated McAndrew as she embraces Stuart, her partner, who is standing.
Stuarts surrender is sweet.
Movie Nightshows McAndrew cradling Stuarts head in her lap.
The cards are stacked against women artists exploring this kind of secret life.
Such themes are dismissed as the stuff of romance novels and soft-core illustration.
McAndrew says she didnt look at herself in a mirror for ten years.
Now she wants to put my secrets into the painting secrets that she shares with so many others.
I want it to be for anyone with a body.
