Batya Kuncman

Work
My interest is focused on issues of contemporary painting and image-making, the relationship between flat surface and three-dimensional illusion. While I am influenced by traditional masterworks from different art historical periods the works are also impacted by street art and disposable culture, combining representation, pop art and abstraction. In my work I experiment with the relationship between disciplines- painting, photography and digital and some of the ways in which perception is shaped and distorted by image overload in our hyper-connected environment. My paintings represent the quest for the relief point when multilayered painting styles amalgamate to create a meaningful and visually engaging image; maneuvering very fine graphic elements, realism, expressionism, cartoon and raw bold erasures my work explores the meaning of images, their impact on society, politics, culture, and the role of remote image consumption as it relates to identity, taste, mortality and fragmentation of self and culture.

Batya is a multidisciplinary post-conceptual artist whose practice includes paintings, photography, video, digital works and animation. Her work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums that include the Museum of Modern Art of Taluca, Mexico, Haun Tie Art Museum in Beijing, China, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and Martine Chaisson Gallery in New Orleans. She has been included in the Computer Art Congress and has published in the Europia Productions journal. Recently Batya’s animation was projected at the FCUUK protest exhibit and her digital work was selected for exhibit at the inFUSION Gallery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NY and BHQFU, New York, NY