VIEW IN MY ROOM
Australia
Painting, Oil on Plastic
Size: 16.5 W x 69.5 H x 1.6 D in
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The technical focus of my current practice revolves around verre églomisé, or reverse glass painting. The interest in the process arose from a desire to release painting from its traditional two-dimensional limitations; due to the plinths, many of my works can be experienced in the round, both back and front surfaces accessible simultaneously. Additionally, the empty areas of the composition become four-dimensional, in that the peripheral activity in the room is absorbed into the painting and becomes part of the painting's history. One of the primary culprits contributing to painting's dimension-specificity has historically been the horizon line. Many artists combatted its tyranny with abstraction, but the transparency of my work allows for hyperrealism while offering a shifting horizon line. The subject of the work moves as the viewer moves, and once again, the mirror-image on the reverse presents a figure that is always looking in the distance.
Original Created:2016
Subjects:Time
Painting:Oil on Plastic
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16.5 W x 69.5 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Australia
Jennifer Whitten, an American artist, immigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 2009. At the start of her career, her fastidious, highly skilled manner of working seemed well suited for medical illustration, but Jennifer quickly abandoned medical studies in pursuit of her own artistic investigations. For years, her photorealistic paintings have navigated the aestheticisation of absence and autobiographical nostalgia; and most recently, after an encounter in Italy with a collection of 18th century reverse-glass paintings, she determined that glass would serve as an ideal conduit of these themes. Oil, reverse-glass and representational painting have lengthy histories, but Jennifer’s edgy recontextualisation of these methods upends any hint of the conventional. Incorporating everything from steel, to video, to live music, her complex installations defy the traditional 2D confines set for painting, but preserve its seduction and sincerity. In 2015, Jennifer completed her Masters in Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. She was the recipient of the Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Research Award, the University’s most prestigious honor, worth $15,000. Jennifer is also a proud tenant of the Abbotsford Convent, the largest arts precinct in Australia.
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