Uncertain Memory
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Date
2016-06-24
Authors
Murawski, Veronica
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University of Waterloo
Abstract
"Uncertain Memory" features a series of figurative oil paintings on canvas and paper inspired by photographs from my family archive. My paintings are developed in stages; beginning with a process of mining and selecting specific images, which are then manipulated before being translated into paintings as works on paper or canvas. I focus primarily on female figures as I search for a sense of strangeness within each image as well as an uncertainty about the figure’s actions or whereabouts in the scene. I am drawn to ambiguity as a means of exploring relationships between past and present, reflecting a personal need to establish a sense of identity and understanding of my family’s past, as well as examining the universal and intimate relationship we have to photographic images.
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painting, figure, oil painting, figurative, memory, Veronica Murawski, MFA, the punctum, photo-images, photography, Gerhard Richter, Painters of Modern Life, portrait, Post War Painting, New European Painting, canvas, the family gaze, the tourist gaze, gaze, female, analog, archives, art, Master of Fine Arts, Marlene Dumas, Elizabeth Peyton, Uncertain Memory, past, nostalgia, longing, technique, contemporary art, painting photographs, image, images, sensation, time, realism, narrative, family history, amateur photography, collection, european, studio art, identity, women, photographs