Jennifer Walton
Fathers and Sons/The Hunters
July 2–July 31, 1994

Jennifer Walton’s paintings examine institutions of male dominance. The hunter, portrayed as a white, North American male, is used as a multilayered metaphor for the depiction of a predominantly male activity, one that speaks to the patriarchal history of painting and image making in general. Each painting alludes to the existential “look” or “the gaze”, the fact that images have traditionally been constructed from a male viewpoint to serve a male viewpoint.