by admin | Sep 13, 2017 |
Allison Janae Hamilton Return to Artist List WorksArtist StatementCV FLORIDALAND, 2017 Untitled (Ouroboros), 2017 Wonder Room, 2017 Wonder Room, 2017 Wonder Room, 2017 Wonder Room (Front Porch Soundscape), 2017 Brecencia and Pheasant, 2015 Brecencia, 2016 Altar/Alter: A Ritual of Mythos, 2016 They scream if you don't look twice IV, 2016 A balm for the living., 2016 Scratching at the wrong side of firmament., 2015 Dollbaby standing in the orchard at midday., 2015 House dress at the bank of a flatwoods lake, 2015 The Hours., 2015 Artist Statement My artwork features uncanny subjects and surreal scenes that blend the epic with the everyday and the disturbing with the delicate within the expanse of the rural American south. The chief concern of my practice is land: I am curious about the ways that the actual topography of the American landscape contributes to social and political constructions of space. I am likewise interested in the role of landscape in the conception and figuring of “Americana.” In my treatment of land, the natural environment is the central protagonist, not a backdrop, in the unfolding of historic and contemporary narratives. My work is accordant with Walker Evans’s premise that “southerners are haunted by their own landscape.” I create unsettling figurations that engage the social and political concerns of today’s changing southern terrain, such as land loss, environmental justice, climate change, and sustainability. Each work contains narratives that are pieced together from folktales, hunting and farming rituals, African-American nature writing, and Baptist hymns. Most intimately, I am influenced by mythologies passed down to me through my own relationship with the region: I was born in...
by admin | Sep 13, 2017 |
Dylan Vandenhoeck Return to Artist List WorksArtist StatementCV 1. Entoptic Touch: Pressure Phosphene and Coffee Mug, 2017 2. DETAIL Entoptic Touch: Pressure Phosphene and Coffee Mug 3. The Nausea: Ceiling, 2017 4. Left Eye Half Closed, Bright Day, Floater, 2017 5. The Nausea: Subway, 2017 6. DETAIL The Nausea: Subway 7. Plein Air Painting XIII, 2017 8. Plein Air Painting XII, 2017 9. Plein Air Painting IX, 2016 10. Plein Air Painting IV, 2016 11. Plein Air Painting XV, 2017 12. Plein Air Painting VI, 2016 13. I'm Facing My Side, At the Hudson River Looking Towards the New Jersey Palisades, The Wind Against My Neck, Making an Observational Voice Memo, 2016 14. Standing with Poison Berries in Front of my Nose in Pound Ridge, the Blinding Sun Through the Trees, Afterimages, 2016 15. I'm in my Running Clothes, 2015 16. Left Eye Open, Right Eye Closed, Right Eye Open, Left Eye Closed, 2016 17. Plein Air Painting I, 2016 18. Plein Air Painting XIV, 2017 19. Plein Air Painting V, 2016 20. Three Glances Wearing Blue Sunglasses, at the Hudson River by Fairway, 2016 Artist Statement “Inside and outside are inseparable. The world is wholly inside and I am wholly outside of myself.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception I make observational paintings. I paint either on location, from voice memo phenomenological accounts, from preparatory drawings/photos/notes, or a combination of the three. From life, but what does living actually look like? It’s far from straight-forward. We are told we can perceive the world but cannot perceive our own perception. Those words do not align with lived experience. Phenomena...
