Faris McReynolds
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Painting from film stills extracted from sources of popular culture, McReynolds explores how an image can be broken down through multiple layers of appropriation, from film to video to digital media to paint. Depicting group activities such as party scenes, sun bathing and show-boat performances, McReynolds magnifies the contrast between the immediacy of spectacle and the slow reveal of an event’s details. His imagery lingers in the in-between depicting moments in transition. Relishing this space between cause and effect, McReynolds bestows the mundane activities of a self-congratulating American culture with a sense of seduction, violence, intrigue and suspense.
“[My work] comes from the desire to find a balance between something that is staged and intuitive, original and reproduced, familiar and unexpected, digital and analog, comic and tragic… I’m drawn to moments that exist between genesis and resolve. Something so fleeting and anonymous it’s impossible to see without the aid of technology.”
For more information on McReynolds’ work, please visit his website.