Objectified Artist Statement
Objectified (13-19) depicts subjects with their most precious objects. The subjects choose and arrange their most valued objects for a portrait set in a place of great personal meaning, painted in a style inspired by traditional oil painting. Their approach to this task reveals the aspects of their identity they wish to communicate. Through interviewing subjects, Doris’ paintings depict how young adults curate material value. Rose shows that art, like religion, ritualizes a process of looking inward.
These objects accompany the paintings in the exhibition space. This appropriates the objects from their functional uses, and we see the objects as the subject does.
Objects stabilize our sense of self. External items help place the significance of past events, generate nostalgia, and trigger memory. Treasured objects are often not expensive or rare but connect us to our feelings. We identify with these items so profoundly they become spiritual objects, and metaphors that help us understand our beliefs.
Objectified (13-19) depicts subjects with their most precious objects. The subjects choose and arrange their most valued objects for a portrait set in a place of great personal meaning, painted in a style inspired by traditional oil painting. Their approach to this task reveals the aspects of their identity they wish to communicate. Through interviewing subjects, Doris’ paintings depict how young adults curate material value. Rose shows that art, like religion, ritualizes a process of looking inward.
These objects accompany the paintings in the exhibition space. This appropriates the objects from their functional uses, and we see the objects as the subject does.
Objects stabilize our sense of self. External items help place the significance of past events, generate nostalgia, and trigger memory. Treasured objects are often not expensive or rare but connect us to our feelings. We identify with these items so profoundly they become spiritual objects, and metaphors that help us understand our beliefs.
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