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Painting, Gouache on Clayboard
Size: 11 W x 14 H x 1.5 D in
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This painting is part of my Deep Fake series which employs color theory to create the illusion of depth and layering. Referencing the notion of "fake depth", the series is named after the term Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake") which refers to synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness. Deep Fake explores my fascination with color and depth, and how the former can describe the latter on a flat surface. I use a combination of Gouache (acrylic, archival) and Mineral paint (archival) for their ultra-matte velvety surface quality which absorbs rather than reflects light. The smaller paintings are done on Clayboard with a 1.5" cradle, the larger ones (3' x 4' and up) are on stretched canvas with a 1.5" deep cradle. The process of making these paintings is methodical, and involves mixing each hue to just the right value so that all shapes in the composition move forward and backwards rhythmically. Like scratching away the silver wax on a lottery ticket to see the value of what emerges, I never know if a painting works until the last color is filled in. Then I make adjustments, sometimes one sometimes fifteen, until it sings. Occasionally, the colors work together on the first try. Working means they vibrate between multiple forms / relationships / planes endlessly and non-hierarchically. They at once give the viewer something to chase/navigate and somewhere to rest. A peacock’s feather, an abalone shell, a soap bubble— these surfaces demonstrate the relative-to-light illusion that is color. When a form is unstable, embedded in the experience of seeing it is the sense of chasing it. In these paintings I’m searching for a vibration that offers both rest and revelation.
Painting:Gouache on Clayboard
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11 W x 14 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Kyla Kegler is an artist based in Buffalo, NY where she runs Agatha's, an independent performance and exhibition space, and teaches part time at the University at Buffalo. Kegler makes paintings that explore color theory towards the illusion of depth and layering on a flat surface; and performances that employ performers wearing large papier mâchét puppet heads dealing with existential disasters in a transapocalyptic multiverse. Kegler’s practice is shaped by work with Bread and Puppet (2006) and living in Berlin (2008-2016), where she co-founded underground theater Zuhause (2011-2013) and received an MA Solo/Dance/Authorship at Art University of Berlin 2015. She received an MFA in Studio Art, University at Buffalo (2018); launched House on Fire Show (web series made with 40 climate activist teens from across the USA (2021); launched Agatha’s— independent art and performance space, Buffalo, NY (2021); developed Mountains — performed at Artpark WNY (2020), Torn Space Theater (2022), Undercurrent, Dumbo NYC (2022); and is a founding member of BICA School, Buffalo, NY 2022.
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