Virtual Loops

My graduate work is interested in the collision between painting and media theory. This interception results in a disfigurement of painting, breaking down the picture plane and the notion of a singular surface. The body of work over the past year expands painting into small units of dried paint, singular brushmarks, and plexiglass colour swatches to explore digitality as a form of abstraction through a distinctly material method. Space, processes of digital output, light, and construction are elements of assembling perceptual moments that circle around fragmentation, information dispersal, and reduction.

“Virtual Loops” is a reference to the double use of the term “virtual” as describing digital spaces, but also as being nearly something – almost, but not quite. The Loop is a reference to feedback loops of information and data flows, a key concept in cybernetics. This work attempts to capture the state of being within a loop, transmitting back and forth between digital and analog spaces, yet always understanding that this attempt is perpetually a virtual one.

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