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United States
Painting, Oil on Other
Size: 0.4 W x 0.4 H x 1 D in
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The Anonymous series is a cross-section of portraits based on passport photos. The deadpan portraits is culled from of hundreds of found and discarded passport photos.These paintings are a sampling of random American faces. Like booking shots of people who have been arrested, passport photos are not meant to be glamorous. Head shots taken quickly by photographers with no personal interest in the subject. These straight-faced photos are meant only to be used for documentation purposes. I paint from ‘rejected’ and thus even less ‘beautiful’ passport photos with all their imperfections - closed eyes, big noses, or sagging eyelids - yet capturingtheir beauty, still the same
Painting:Oil on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:0.4 W x 0.4 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United States
Brett Amory was born in 1975 in Chesapeake, Virginia. He has lived in the Bay Area of California for the past 15 years, living in San Francisco for 15 years before relocating to Oakland in 2009, where he is currently based. . In the past year he's had solo shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, New York and San Jose. Amory began the Waiting series in 2001 with paintings depicting commuter subjects seemingly detached from their fellow passengers and surrounding environments, inspired by the introverted culture of public transit and inhabitants of the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco (where the artist lived for fifthteen years). Figures and places in Amory's work are based on photographs the artist has taken of ordinary city architecture and random people who he sees on a daily basis but never speaks to. He feels especially drawn to individuals who look lost, lonely or awkward"”those who don't appear to fit in socially. As the title suggests, the Waiting series is about how we rarely experience living in the now, always awaiting what will come next or obsessed with what has already transpired. In our age of distraction, being in the present is difficult to achieve outside of meditation practice, it requires heightened cognitive awareness and clear mental space, often prevented by constant internal dialogue, preoccupation with memories of the past and/or concern for the future. Amory's work attempts to visually represent this concept of disconnection and anticipation, conveying the idea of transient temporality that exists in most moments of our daily lives.
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