The contrast between the decadent volume of cascading fabric and stark naked limbs brings to mind wealth and power and the manner in which these forces are exerted relative to bodies - particularly, women’s bodies. Coverly pursues a frank and elucidating examination of sexuality and its pitfalls in her work: by hiding that which the viewer most anticipates seeing, the artist turns the element of nudity in classical paintings against expectations. In works such as “Yours and Mine” (featured above) the artist depicts grappling in the manner of any Renaissance depiction of a Greek myth, draping her figures in exorbitant cloths and framing the entire scene in a passionate shade of reddish pink. In the artist’s other works, such as “For You,” the viewer can identify a figure’s head against a wallpaper style pattern. Rather than admiring the figure’s features, however, one gazes at folds of red fabric draped tightly around the head of the subject. By adopting a hue of fabric the same color as the wallpaper for her figure, Coverly makes thinly veiled references to blending in, or to ideas of gaslighting present in feminist literature such as Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s infamous feminist tale, The Yellow Wallpaper. Coverly styles her figures as both seductive and off putting, embracing a carefully honed painting style as a result of her robust artistic studies to frame vulnerability and identity.