Female figure with a raised hand 1988

Oleg Holosiy made this oil on canvas painting, Female figure with a raised hand, and to me, it feels like a study in trying to capture a fleeting feeling. There’s so much texture here, it's almost like he was scratching at the surface of the painting, trying to get something out. Look at the way the white paint is applied – thin scratches over the murky, olive green background. It's raw, immediate, and there’s something unresolved about it. It reminds me of Guston’s late work, that same kind of searching, like the painting is never quite finished. It embraces ambiguity and suggests multiple interpretations, rather than anything fixed and definite.