Two small angular eyes, each built from three or four brisk strokes and each slightly mismatched, sit above a wide smile-arc that never quite closes at either end - closer to Saul Steinberg's economy than to any careful likeness, where a handful of lines are asked to perform an entire emotional contract with the viewer. Sunita Voss's green line holds both the wry and the earnest at once, and never picks a side.
Two small angular eyes, each built from three or four brisk strokes and each slightly mismatched, sit above a wide smile-arc that never quite closes at either end - closer to Saul Steinberg's economy than to any careful likeness, where a handful of lines are asked to perform an entire emotional contract with the viewer. Sunita Voss's green line holds both the wry and the earnest at once, and never picks a side.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery