Creating time-based animations in which the composition slowly and imperceptibly shifts serves the dual function of combining a multitude of compositional variants into a single work without the limitations of a static material structure. Over centuries painting evolved historically to occupy different types of spaces. Because digital files exist in a state of infinite multiplicity and can occupy multiple platforms simultaneously, they have the capacity to proliferate beyond traditional market and institutional constraints.
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(3 paintings)
Oil on linen
47 x 60 cm
2024
NADA NY May 2024 Statement:
My new paintings were created in response to the conflict in Palestine and the deliberate spread of misinformation being used to justify ongoing acts of genocide. In the United States, Palestinian and Pro-Palestinian voices are being systematically and institutionally repressed, false allegations of anti-semitism are being used to crush dissent, and public demonstrations of solidarity are being met with state and institutional violence.
The relentless murder campaign perpetrated against innocent civilians, mostly women and children, has consumed my thoughts over the last 7 months and affected not only my creative practice but my faith in democratic and cultural institutions. For me these paintings are about concealment, obfuscation, erasure, and deletion – actions that reveal as much as they conceal. Simultaneously a memorial to the lives lost and a warning about how misinformation and obfuscation can be used to limit debate and manufacture consent.
Games that challenge traditionally structured social relationships in a hands-on interactive way, designed with inherently synergistic and altruistic parameters.
A collection of booklets, interviews, and studio notes that accompanied past exhibitions.