The Thinker and His Women

Aaron Feaver paints women the way some people stare at them—quietly obsessive, a little unsettled by what he finds. His figures tend toward the interior: faces turned inward, bodies caught mid-thought, surrounded by the soft wreckage of a mind at work. "The Girls And The Brain" is an accurate title for his preoccupations generally, not just this piece. There’s always that tension in his canvases between the body as object and the body as the thing doing the observing.