Kathryn DeMarco

Detailed image description for I Got This

This is a busy collection of visual stimuli. Central in the foreground is a gray cat resting comfortably on a table and looking at the viewer. Its yellow-brown eyes are nearly centered on the canvas, with its body horizontal on the right. The head appears to be painted, but the body is a series of collaged elements, like pages from a magazine, some of which have small typed words. Its left front paw looks two-toed, like a sloth or ruminant animal.

Standing in the left quarter of the piece is a very white nude female mannequin, arms up and hands behind her head, leaning back. Her features are non-descript and shaded, her short hair is also white, a hint of vulva seems to be suggested, there are some small bits of lettering over her sternum (I can make out ‘GALLERY’) and from her right pelvis down to the kneecap large black letters rotated 90 degrees spell something like MOSCHINO.

The table the cat rests on has a rectangular top in the lower right two-thirds of the canvas, with one corner diagonally thrusting out towards the viewer. There are what appear to be two very thick legs underneath covered with sheets of B&W musical composition. The table top shows a wooden surface, the inner 95% of which is also covered by paper with musical notations - staffs and notes.

In the depth order, next behind the table, covering the lower one quarter of the work is a curvilinear object shaped like a long fish, festooned with colorful pages from magazines or books; music, a musician, etc. The wall in back seems to be a painted loud wallpaper - a pattern of wavy thick slate-colored lines going diagonal from lower left to upper right, blended with light brown and short segments of dark blue lines on the vertical. These cover a lavender color, except for the part of the wall to the left of the cat, where they cover a brighter sky blue.

Leaning against the wall at lower-left behind the mannequin are what seem to be several paintings. At left is a vertical picture of a woman, standing tall, dressed fashionably in an above-the-knee dress, holding a handbag and sporting a chapeau. At right is a framed picture; we see only the upper right quarter, there’s a vertical white blob, can’t ascertain what it is. Over the picture is what seems to be another painting, wider than tall, with intersecting orange lines and other difficult to discern elements.

The upper half of the back wall is covered with a series of six framed vertical paintings. Going left to right:

Gray monochrome etching of a woman in a short dress leaning against a partition and in a small busy room.

A larger scene with a white woman with her back to use, looking over her right shoulder at the viewer. She’s wearing a sleeveless green belted culotte and holding what could be a short-stemmed rose. Between her bare legs underfoot is a tuxedo cat also looking at the viewer, he stands on the black and white square-tiled floor. On the right is a busy sideboard topped with another tuxedo cat sitting and looking at the viewer. There’s a plant. At upper-right is a partial painting or mirror, in it is a man looking at the viewer, he wears a white shirt and dark jacket.

A naked white woman standing with one bent leg, in profile facing right, head turned to look at the viewer. She’s holding a garment and is in a busy room. Two tuxedo cats also look at the viewer.

A white man smiling and wearing wire-rimmed glasses holds a fat tuxedo cat upside down and sideways in his up-curled arms. There’s another reddish-tinged cat collaged in the upper-right.

A white woman in dark blue long pants wearing a light blue shirt stands at ease with her left hand up to her left ear. She’s got short dark hair. There’s a Dalmatian dog sitting to her right, facing away from the viewer, looking up at the woman. Between the woman and dog is a small tuxedo cat sitting and facing the viewer. The room features shades of red and green.

Hard to discern: there might be a dark cat sitting near a multi-colored striped wall or fence that curves and recedes into the distance, to a landscape in back.

Written by Thom Haynes, Arts Access Audio Describer

All images and text belong to Kathryn DeMarco, except where noted.