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Installation by Roxy Savage
Presented by M. David & Co., hosted at Art Cake (in Gallery B)
Friday / Saturday, 1 - 6 pm and by appointment

May 9 – May 31, 2025
214 40th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Opening Reception:
May 9, 2025, 6-9pm

M. David & Co. is pleased to present Roxy Savage's installation in Gallery B entitled  hourglasspearrectangleinvertedtriangleblob. 

Featuring sheer, layered organza prints hung on the architecture of domesticity, a clothesline, the title references (and generalizes) and is an amalgamation of female body types, such as apple, pear, hourglass, rectangle, inverted triangle, V-shape, and blob.

This wild, merry (and not-so-merry) go-around of an installation's main character features a snowman (snowwoman/snow person) with a roundular female body type, which reveals itself as a series of personas, including friends, guests, twins, clowns, ghosts, and blondes.

Think of the love child of Frosty the Snowman and the Venus of Willendorf :)

Now sing along :)

  • Hourglass

    • Balanced proportions between bust and hips, with a narrower waist.

    • Often considered the "classic" feminine shape.

  • Pear (Triangle):

    • Hips are wider than the bust, with a well-defined waist.

    • The lower body is fuller, and the upper body is narrower.

  • Apple (Inverted Triangle):

    • Bust is larger than the hips, and the waist is less defined.

    • Weight tends to be carried around the stomach and upper body.

  • Rectangle (Straight):

    • Shoulders, waist, and hips have a similar width.

    • Minimal definition at the waist, creating a more uniform shape.

  • Inverted triangle:

    • Broad shoulders and a narrow waist and hips.

    • Typically an athletic build with more muscle definition in the upper body.

  • Athletic:

    • A more muscular body with less body fat and more definition, often with a straight silhouette.

  • Lollipop:

    • A larger bust with a smaller waist and hips, creating a top-heavy look. 

    • Spells .....Hourglasspearrectangleinvertedtriangleblob 

Savage's brilliance is her recontextualizing of these sexist definitions of the female form. Through the beauty and force of her production, she makes evident that each body type is unique, and that all body shapes are beautiful beyond the male gaze and its facile and dangerous characterizations and stereotypes.

So walk this wild labyrinth, this complicated, irregular network of passages and paths, to find one's way through this transformed space, the questions posed, this path of subversion, where righteous anger is whispered, made manifest through its mix of humor, grace, and delight, elevated and made most human.

Michael David

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