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Artist Statement for Elizabeth Snipes
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My oil on wooden panel paintings demonstrate a curiosity and fondness for a traditional subject, the human figure, and utilize a representational vocabulary to examine an interest in current modes of interpersonal interaction. The work has evolved in conjunction with an investigation of contemporary figurative painting with the purpose of translating a traditional genre and subject matter into a present art historical and cultural context. The resulting paintings utilize recurrent art historical themes of the isolated figure and the sublime, meanwhile contributing to a contemporary conversation surrounding painting in the twenty-first century. I emphasize a disjunction of conventional figure/ground relationships by disrupting spatial unity, emphasizing chromatic disagreement, and highlighting the disparities between multiple image sources. Thematically, the tensions that exist as a result of these formal discontinuities reflect the complex nature of interacting with people and places in the 21st century, an age when virtual reality often occurs simultaneously with physical reality. The work displays a syntactic heterogeneity based on shifts in painted mark making that firmly places it within the discourse of contemporary painting.
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