October 2012

Label Me: Call Me A Name

What’s in a name or a title of a painting and how does it influence you? Do you look at an artwork and turn away confident in your interpretation of it and satisfied with your response to it? Or, do you look for more information to elaborate on the artist’s intentions? Do you look for a label or tag, a form of descriptor that perhaps clarifies or gives greater meaning to what the artist wants you to see or understand? Does that descriptor alter your perception of what you have just seen and change your experience. What if you, the viewer, could title the painting, could attach meaning to it, to lend further insight into it and perhaps supplant another person’s perception of the work?

Jackie Hoysted’s new paintings of contemporary women contribute to the interpretation of her work by assigning labels and tags, attributing names and titles to her work., which may or may not, confirm or contradict her own viewpoints. Visit her website at www.jackiehoysted.com.