EUNICE GOLDEN

WORKS 1970-1973

Eunice Golden: Works 1970–1973 focuses on a selection of works produced during a pivotal moment in the artist’s early career. These works explore fragmented, eroticized, and often monumentalized representations of the male body. Golden’s works resist both classical figuration and purely abstract form, instead occupying a charged space between the two. Limbs, torsos, and suggestive anatomical forms emerge and dissolve across the surface, destabilizing conventional hierarchies of looking and desire.

At a time when depictions of the male nude by women artists were rare, Golden’s drawings assert a reversal of the traditional gaze. The works are at once intimate and confrontational, combining a meticulous attention to surface with an unapologetic engagement with sexuality. Rather than presenting the body as fixed or idealized, Golden renders it unstable—cropped, enlarged, and psychologically loaded—anticipating later developments in feminist art while remaining largely unrecognized within its dominant narratives.

The exhibition will be on view at Duane Thomas Gallery from May 15 through June 15, 2026.