GINA BEAVERS
My current paintings and works on paper deal with issues of representation and meaning. I wrestle with the best way to represent something glimpsed in reality or in a vision. If I paint something abstractly, it becomes unrecognizable to the viewer and formal issues assert themselves. A focus on realism, brings the issue of meaning front and center. Representing the materiality of the subject brings up the idea of a consumer object.
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(After Vuillard)
2009 Acrylic and flashe on canvas 50" x 80" |
Big Trouble in little Berlin
2008 Acrylic on Canvas 30' x 40' |
Z to the A
2007
Acrylic and flashe on paper
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Untitled
2009 Printing Ink on Paper 22' x 30'
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Move 2008 Acrylic and Flashe on Canvas 20' x 26' |
Formally, the works use a blend of the strategies of traditional art making and the more democratic (and commercial) techniques of pop. The finished surfaces of the works reflect this back and forth, between stamping or creating graphic lines (I draw with paint) and brush strokes, between a clean coat of paint and a pouring.
Ideas for the works arise automatically, a sci-fi movie costume, a slice of a Kirchner painting, a phone booth ad, high fashion, street fashion and spontaneous visions; the paintings reject the repetitive investigation of a single visual idea. In the end, they are autobiographical-minute to minute, living in a permanent present.
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