Joyce Polance, Candy, oil on canvas, 36” x 36”, 2018

$4,200.00

Across all three bodies of my work, surface operates as a site of negotiation. Whether rendered with control or aggressively reworked, the paint records a process of testing, resisting, and recalibrating form. Rather than offering resolution, the work insists on ambiguity. Identity, connection, and emotions are shaped through the ongoing effort to remain present within conditions that are rarely secure.

Joyce Polances’ smaller portraits and landscapes push more aggressively against

representation. The Artist begins each painting from a reference, but once the image is initially

established, she stops looking at it. Through repeated cycles of construction and

disruption—thick impasto, gouging, inversion of the canvas, and distortion of form—the

image moves away from description and toward psychological charge. Faces fracture

under pressure; landscapes buckle and churn, functioning less as places than as internal

states.