July 2012

Paint On Known

Paint On Known is a collaborative exhibition between Chajana denHarder and Deborah Anzinger that bridges photography and painting to create systems in which decay, distorted perception and the metaphysical co-exist. Within each artist’s practice she attempts to closely connect with photographic scenes, but in doing so negates, abstracts, distorts and adds to the original source imagery. In doing this, previously static photographs, now infused with layers of paint, grids and projections, become something wild, unknowable and in some ways more real to the artists.

This project is an attempt by the two artists to create a system in which the similarities and differences between their individual modes of working interact, add, speak to then ultimately transcend their individual artistic practice.

Deborah Anzinger and Chajana denHarder’s work can be seen at www.deborahanzinger.com and www.chajana.com respectively.