Our semester studio study plan is due next week. I am looking forward to doing new and exciting work while stepping away from largish paintings into smaller sketch paintings. The idea is to animate the sketches. I admit my editing chops are rusty; I haven’t edited anything in a few years. It should be fun. I am most excited to move my paintings off the gallery walls and into a virtual and accessible space. This animation project should satisfy my unquenchable desire to paint 24/7 and keep the work from piling up all over my studio and house.
Self-portrait 2020, 24×24 oil on linen
Thanks for following my art journey. Check out my Instagram to see more work. My best, Emily
Remember Reflect Reform
In this work, I have been exploring phenomena of memory augmentation. I experimented with reflections and cinematic images by juxtaposing photographs, paint, wood, and mylar. The direction of the work includes painting intimate, reflective, observations of augmented memories.
I began by building a cabinet of curiosities as a way to form a tableau painting and experiment with different media. Inspired by the relief paintings by artist Sally Han, I built a model of a Victorian cabinet using tenets of Darwin's theory of evolution. I painted on a variety of surfaces including wood, photographs, and adding raw lumber to the pieces. In this process, I disassembled the cabinet to give autonomy to each piece. Although I diverted from the original idea of a final installation, there was an impulse to paint larger. Adding mylar was yet another way to accentuate reflection as a part of the critical dialogue with the work. The final result offers an opportunity to remember, reflect, and reform.
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