Selfie #3
Michal Hunter’s painting was based on a photograph taken with an iPad. “The perspective required to include the full figure – my usual format – resulted in surprising distortion that I liked for both the disorienting nature of it as well as how it demonstrated an ongoing theme of my self portraits, i.e., the challenge of working in isolation.”
Tom Hill, one of the featured artists in our October exhibition, Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting and Drawing, discusses his work “Rustic Touch”:
“I am drawn to lurid, flashy colors applied with layers of paint and glitter and images lifted from advertising and erotica. My work is infused with a queer and feminist sensibility that focuses on my experience with bodies that have been devalued, discarded, and despised. I use art as a vehicle to push the traditional boundaries of beauty, morality, and respectability.”
Profile
“The dramatic tonal range of blacks both obscures and reveals anthropomorphic objects that are brought to life as improbable archetypal beings that provoke a sense of wonder, fear, suffering, and strangeness.”
Assemblage
Charity uses multiple media and techniques to create a single portrait. “This figure is formed of several sections, some of which are colored, some monochromatic, some detailed, some blurred. This approach suggests a multifaceted psychology of self which is not easily simplified.”
Bildungsroman
“I use graphics and content from the computer game Minecraft as source material. This work explores the many places where Minecraft exploration and real-life exploration, including parenting, overlap visually, emotionally, and structurally.”