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Brian Mains

American, b. 1950

Winged Figure
1987

Acrylic on canvas
96 x 66 x 2 in. (243.84 x 167.64 x 5.08 cm)
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2019.23

Brian Mains’ Winged Figure, bound and shot with arrows, alludes to St. Sebastian, the martyr considered a protector against the plague. Mains states: “Once I recognized that everything in the universe is in a constant state of change, and that subsequently the identity of everything is transitory, I decided to focus my work on the ideas of change and transformation. Spiritual, religious and philosophical themes, such as heaven/hell, good/evil, birth/death, decay and disintegration, death and transcendence, are used to convey change and transformation.”

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