The Argument

Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas

48 x 48 in

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The Argument is a collaboration between two artists that stages conflict both on the surface of the canvas and within the body it depicts. On the right, Jill Ford paints a figure that is pixelated and fractured, stripped of identity and reassembled as an object of media. The body feels exposed and unstable, consumed by an external gaze that reduces it to parts rather than a whole. On the left, a looser and more derivative style introduces a counterpoint, amplifying the rupture between the two halves.

The work speaks not only to dissonance but also to commodification. Just as the figure is objectified and consumed, so too is style itself, endlessly borrowed and repackaged. The Argument becomes a portrait of conflict where bodies and aesthetics alike are fractured, traded, and remade—caught between presence and erasure, subject and object, originality and imitation.