Medusa,, (undated)

Lubell 4/9: 290

Ink and wash drawing. Series of twelve panels, arranged in a 4 x 3 matrix, each consisting of a depiction of the classic Greek snake-haired, winged monster Medusa. Aside from the first panel, which has a portrait of her face, eight of the other panels show her in various flying poses, along with a short and wordless narrative as we see that her face is actually a mask. In each of the panels of the polyptych, the sexual organs of the creature are aggressively fetishized. Altogether, the panels create the image of a creature forcibly defined through not one but two distinct and often contradictory images – sexual object and inhuman beast. The images are executed in pen ink, line patterns, distinct color tones for the backgrounds (largely grays, blues, greens, yellows, and purples). Three panels only consist of written lines: “A WOMAN IN THE SHAPE OF A MONSTER”, “A MONSTER IN THE SHAPE OF A WOMAN”, and “THE SKIES ARE FULL OF THEM” in the bottom-right panel. Signed Winifred Milius Lubell. This drawing is very similar to Lubell 103, titled A Woman in the Shape of a Monster.

37.8 x 56.5 cm