Disobedient Mediation

Paintings

This series of paintings are the result of harvesting image stills from manipulated experimental videos I create. This hybrid form of art-making allows me to enter into a new conversation with my imagery with the agency to negotiate with the baggage of painting instead of being controlled by it. Rather than dominating the canvas with paint, I first have a dialog with the video. The resulting paintings have elaborate palimpsest, which lends to the ability to expose multiple layers of reality. The video compositing gives my paintings a sense of movement and time that addresses the contemporary cultural programming of the female-identifying psyche. I create a circuit between video and painting by using these mediums to inform each other mutually. A dialog emerges between the artistic intuition of using the paint body and the technical automation of video that blurs the real and virtual. This blending of the intuitive and the technical creates dynamic images that translate well on the seductive surface of a canvas.

Residue | Oil on Canvas