“Allusions to variously hued skin, voluptuous folds and juicy orifices merge with the words and punctuation marks—loaded, humorous and poetic by turn. War Frieze IX (1992), a multipart, 10-foot-long section from a 200-foot-long work concerning the Gulf War, demonstrates Schor’s early fusion of words and paint, as well as the importance to her of feminism, which has informed her practice into the present. Issuing from a breast on one end and a phallus attached to an ear on the other, a red liquid stream outlined in squiggly pubic hairs spells out the word ‘undue’ in cursive. The pink, impastoed, fleshlike ground bears the word like a tattoo. In the Gulf War context, ‘undue’ could describe excessive force; but, given Schor’s predilection for double entendres, it also implies ‘undo,’ as milk morphs into blood, the nurturing breast undone (presumably) by the weaponlike phallus.”
source: Constance Mallinson “reviewing” Mira Schor @ CB1, artinamericamagazine.com
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