Dolen
40” x 52” Acrylic and collage on canvas
2017

Collection of Dolen Perkins Valdez

Dolen’s eyes are portals of intensity. She is known most readily for her literary authorship, but to examine the collaged layers of this canvas is to investigate beyond her well-known prose into the origins of such intensity. The visual information concentrated within her body offer biographical hints at the legacies that inform her work, her brilliance, and her inspiration. Imar’s signature geometry form the contours of her form, and from her crown of curls, emerge the horns distinctive of Imar’s sacred cows.