Girl taking off her panties 1992

Oleg Holosiy made this painting, *Girl Taking Off Her Panties*, sometime before 1993 with oil on canvas. Looking at the surface, it feels like an intimate glimpse caught through a hazy lens. The redness is warm. It's like looking through a heat lamp and it's all about the process. The colour palette is limited, almost monochromatic, with variations of red dominating the scene. This gives the painting a kind of simmering, interior quality. Holosiy's brushwork seems both deliberate and spontaneous, creating texture and depth, while in other areas he allows the paint to be transparent, almost like a stain. It's hard to tell what tools were used, or if it’s intentional, but it lends the painting a sense of raw vulnerability. There is no real obscuration. The more you look, the more the surface reveals. It's like Holosiy is inviting us to embrace ambiguity and multiple perspectives, like Phillip Guston.