NOT AT FIRST GLANCE
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In response to our rapid paced, information saturated lives we have developed a new type of perception. The ever expanding array of media we face creates a constant barrage of often conflicting flashes of data. We have adapted to this overload by instantly filtering out the extraneous and assembling the relevant into ad hoc composites.
We no longer perceive things as still, but as caught in transit - for that instant after they have registered, before they are replaced. We have had to step up our rate of pattern formation: choosing what to keep, what to discard and how to make sense of what remains.
Integrating photography and painting, this body of work is a rendering of this new perception - not a linear catalog, but a synthesis of pertinent images. The camera stands in for our eyes, recording bits of visual information; the subsequent selecting and combining of key elements functions like the contemporary unconscious. The results are compositions whose apparent harmony masks incongruities not obvious at first glance.
Kathryn Dunlevie
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photo-collage on panel 45" x 60" 1999
photo-collage on panel 20" x 15" 2000
photo-collage on panel 30" x 60" 2005
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 40" x 30" 2005
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 45" x 37" 1998
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 2001 40" x 30"
photo-collage on panel 58" x 47" 2002
photo-collage on panel 60" x 60" 2003
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 54" x 35" 2012
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 21" x 17" 2000
photo-collage on panel 22" x 16" 2002
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 23" x 37" 2011
photo-collage on panel 21" x 17" 1999
photo-collage on panel 18" x 15" 2000
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 21" x 17" 2002
photo-collage on panel 21" x 17" 2002
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 21" x 17" 2002
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 40" x 47" 2002
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 17" x 21" 2002
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 21" x 17" 1998
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 21" x 17" 2002
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 17" x 21" 2001
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 21" x 17" 2003
photo-collage and acrylic paint on panel 20" x 15" 2002