As far as art sites that are dedicated to contemporary art this is as good a site as any. I haven't actually used this site or contributed thus far, but from what I have read so far, the critiques that are offered are geared for people interested in fine art.
So for the critique part
General critique
I agree with what you've said in reflecting on the work you made that is encapsulated by your artist statement. Most of all, I think the figures are getting in your way. Your technical interests are obstructing your conceptual interests. The figures often feel rigidly inserted into the work to communicate your ideas. What I think you should do is either make your technical interests your conceptual interests or pursue your concepts more directly. A compromise between the two doesn't work.
Not only that, but you have a painterly approach to depicting your subjects which I believe is inappropriate. Think about how politics and escalated conflicts are represented in modern society. There is a clinical, removed sense you get - a very pronounced divide between spectator-ship and participation. Your approach is concerned too much with the artist's indelible mark. I think a more neutral mark - or lack of a mark - and a limited palette would work stylistically. You should also look at film stills and medical photography of war casualties and really question painting's relationship to it.
So for a less general critique.
The painting Venus of Tikrit. My problem with the painting is its lack of subtlety. Everything is so overt. The title obviously references the history of classical painting, and the status of nude women in it. To contrast that you have a nude Iraqi woman wearing a Hijab who has been viciously maimed. Already there is this discussion of war, politics, culture, religion, and gender. The woman is identified as "Venus" (a signifier for erotic beauty and aesthetics among other things) which is in direct contrast to the utility of the veal - which is the preservation of modesty. Then you have these stars in the background and explosions, which I take to represent America's place in the overall conflict and partially the cause of the woman being disfigured. The way the figure is positioned in the picture recalls a figure drawing class in how rigidly it is treated in the composition.
See, there's little room for the viewer to insert himself in. I think you can go further by making the picture more suggestive than overt and also have more for the viewer to think about. In this painting in particular, I sense that your approach is closer to an illustrator than a painter in how you visualize your ideas. As of now, I think your being too heavy handed in presenting your themes.
