Thursday, May 12, 2016

The prisoner returns to the cave. painting installation


Mounting the paintings on stands to encircle the viewer at eye level, I am attempting to intensify the viewer's immersion into this tense re-presented filmic scene. The idea is to create a claustrophobic space where in one feels the anxiety driven weight of the surrounding representations. I am falling quickly in love with the use of negative space.  

All of the paintings are in progress with some a little further along than others... 



Working with Emily Eveleth again for the thesis semester and I am very excited about what's to come...

Don't stand there looking. 30x50. oil on canvas


This may still be in progress (not quite satisfied) but it got put in a quick pop up show a few weeks ago so I thought I should repost the newest version... the title is a play with the film's subtitles