in some ways this was my goodbye/love note to my studio.
hanging my thesis show highlighted a bunch of installation issues with my paintings. The small scale called for the hanging to be more grouping-oriented rather than a linear presentation of images. It was an interesting experience but it also made me want to invert that process. So this is a piece made in a space, about the space. The paintings are allowed to be fragments of one large painting. The space is painted as the paintings are painted. The paintings on canvas are different viewpoints of my studio, with linear cues to match up the abstracted image to something that exists in reality. This adds another layer of looking as the viewer is asked to participate in searching for the abstracted forms within the space, but then is confronted with an overlap of reality and fiction as the painting bleeds into the space and vice versa. I don't know what it means yet to make a painting where all he fragments are dependent like that- where a pink painting is meant to be seen on a blue wall. I know the overlap of fantasy and reality is really a hyperbole or metaphor for my own life, and having trouble separating the two. I was also thinking a lot about grounding my canvases. I became obsessed with mixing ground colors, and deciding how transparent or opaque how glossy or matte... just doing it became a ritual that had to happen at least once a week. I was thinking with this piece about making a ground for the world and building off of that ground the way i would in a painting. The fact that the piece was painted completely simultaneously let it also become a record of the movement of my body through the space.
I'm going to play more with this in different spaces. Super interested in entering the realm of site specific work with this strange twist that involves paintings....
