"Nicola Tyson explores the possibilities of figurative painting with conflicted yet controlled female forms. The bodies she creates are both desirable and monstrous and seem to have the capacity to disassemble themselves at any given time. Certain parts look as if they were morphed into one another describing seamless twists and manipulations. The figures are often faceless, demanding an extreme subjectivity. Other paintings suggest multiple viewpoints. Tyson places her figures against an ambiguous ground, 'environments' where they register the frame and allow it to engender their very substance. An intense but subtle use of color gives the work a surprising blunt, matter of fact edge" - Friedrich Petzel Gallery
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