It’s that time of year again to decide what work should go into the winter exhibition. In the last six months, I’ve completed 75 6×8 inch oil paintings on linen. Now I must somehow narrow that number down to an 8×10 ft wall. Because the exhibition is completely digital, I will create a digital collage of some of the work. I also have a hybrid animation of the paintings with audio. I am looking forward to showing something in the durée this semester, but also terrified. Mostly terrified.
a still from the video
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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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