| This painting series, memory-inspired using developed compositions and less finished paint application, depicts mysterious scenes of figures in interiors maintaining life. Themes of maintenance, celebration, conversation, and leisure are emphasized using formal elements of figures in interiors, perspective, and paint application. These compositions are memories based on a collection of moments in time. Though inspired from memories, the pieces are not intended to portray real life but a shared physical and mental space of the figures creating a magical and mysterious element within the composition. While revisiting American paintings of the 1930s and 1940s, the larger implications of my work seem to reconnect with the magic realism genre. Completed are 33 thesis paintings and 31 studies of 39 models in 27 interior spaces. This project confirmed that using memory-inspired and developed compositions with a less finished paint application created a physical and mental maintenance space for the figures. |
