"Project Monarch 78" Painting

The grid also is used as the basic framework for the artist's "Project Monarch" series of acrylic on panel paintings. They are the painted results of the artist segmenting and color-averaging personal photographs. Pixelation, on a grand scale. Implicit in these image-modification experiments, are questions of public vs private and what actually constitutes portraiture. They are perhaps intimate images, willingly obfuscated in this tell-all age of social media​. The title of this series originates from a CIA-funded program that is described in some detail by the Agency's own documents, which have been heavily redacted and released to the public through FOIA requests. Spoken of, is a dark and nefarious series of experiments intended to fracture a person's psyche through exposure to trauma. Sullivan’s work superficially references modernism’s fondness for seriality, grids, and muted content, but move past this initial veneer, and it calls even the act of viewing itself, into question. Beneath these stoic exteriors lurk the dark and foreboding underbelly of a covert history, that we can only catch fleeting glimpses of.

Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:60 W x 36 H x 1 D in

Number of Panels:2

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