The Emotional Show

The emotions in Brittany Tucker’s paintings are often manifested as interactions between her own realistically-rendered self-portrait and a second figure depicted as a cartoon. The other figure is often an intrusive white man, or—as seen elsewhere in The Emotional Show—a Black woman. Here, she is responding directly to the traumatizing speed at which she (along with everyone else) was pressured to move forward through the perspective-shifting events of 2020. Other paintings in the same series are spray-painted with words like “riot,” “wild,” and “not OK.”
(DKS)