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Window VI Painting
United States
Painting, Ink on Plastic
Size: 11 W x 14 H x 1 D in
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Blood and White is a series that uses a specific color symbology as a means to interpret diseases of the brain and internal organs. Through the indirect abstractions McCollom wishes to represent the quiet panic of the disordered mind and the beautiful decay of the diseased body. The paintings are made using acrylic paint, oil paint, varnish, ink and watercolor on synthetic paper. Employed is a limited palette of neutral colors and red. Each color has a supreme symbolic meaning. Red always represents the physical body—blood, viscera, decay, and visual physicality of the body itself. The neutral warm and cool beiges represent the outward flesh, the reality of the world and the prison of the body. The anfractuous nature of the intestines is sampled in the deliberately curling strokes, and the pooling of the various flesh colored materials is meant to recall medical images. White, the most sacred color, is always about the existential void. White is the unknowable space that the mind contemplates. The whiteness of the paper always surrounds the painted image, so that each one is immersed in the chaos of the mind and appearing as a religious icon. The work however, though its conceptual matter is rooted in the presence of body and mind related distress, is meant to be a visual experience of beauty. Reframing the human reaction to disease with disgust into one of curiosity is a primary objective within the work. The paintings are corporeal and existential in nature; reacting to the body, the greater reality, and the existential space that is explained in theory by philosophers, theologians, and mystics while exploring a personal existential pathology— a physical fear reaction to meaninglessness. Blood and White interprets the internal body, external reality, and the mysterious unknowable aspects of existence.
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Painting:Ink on Plastic
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11 W x 14 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Caitlin G McCollom is a visual artist whose conceptual paintings are focused on notions of metaphysical searching. McCollom is compelled to visually express the unknowable span of consciousness and the beauty and wonder of encounters with the spiritual realm. While her vibrant paintings on plastic paper have many facets, she uses color and shape symbologies and explorations of archetypical imagery surrounded by formal whiteness to create modern icons that vibrate the connections between the visible and invisible world. McCollom is an internationally exhibiting artist and she has been featured in national print and digital publications. Including Marie Claire, Vogue, Austin Woman Magazine, Glasstire, Tribeza, The Austin Chronicle, Persona Literary Journal and Les Femme Folles a catalog of women artists in the United States. Currently her work is held internationally with prominent private collectors and the corporate collections of Kendra Scott, The Hilton Worldwide, The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, The Rabboni Institute, and Angelo State University McCollom graduated in 2010 from Texas State University with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in studio art painting with a focus on art history. Previously she worked as an acclaimed curator for Red Space Gallery and on various independent projects, she was also a regional Texas art critic which now informs her full time studio practice.
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