Sharon Koelblinger, “Perfection as Absolute” is on view now in our October exhibition, Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting and Drawing:
Her work explores “cyclical relationships between loss and desire, perfection and fallibility, repetition and rarity. Obsessive gestures underscore these relationships and represent a reverence for ritual through hand drawn lines and enigmatic imagery.”
Displaced
“The painting is is composed of five digitally merged self portraits that are painted as one. The abstracted version of himself is intended to illustrate the complexities of our personalities and the relationship between the individual and the experiences that shape us. We are in flux, forever changing from one experience to the next.”
Vector-Visa-Versa 01
“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.”
On view now at Hillyer!
Drums
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.“
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.”
