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“I’m interested in pushing the plasticity of paint through the act of painting itself. Data in the form of paint becomes layered, removed, and reassembled. The order in which colors are applied and subsequently removed through various hand sanding techniques allows each work in the series to have a final aesthetic reflecting its own systematic construction.”
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Michael Hubbard’s work “traces a linage of punk rock feminists, starting with the Riot Grrrl bands of the nineties. The works are both heroic portraits of revolutionary women and meditations on digital and painted media. There is a focus on the fierce, youthful, antiestablishment rage of the people portrayed. They’re righteous and strong, and the artwork is filled with sincere respect.“
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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.”
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“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.”
