GARRETT PERRY

HE WENT TO CHURCH TO PRAY FOR ALL THE BAD THINGS HE HAD SEEN ON TV

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This body of work has been an examination of visual culture. I have created drawings and paintings that appropriate images from visual culture. Portraiture is the context in which I examine the images. The authority of the image is questioned when it is disconnected from its original context and later placed within in a new context. The series of work aims to challenge the comfort of visual culture while questioning the authority and authenticity of an image.

I begin each drawing and painting by appropriating images from visual culture. I use images from trashy magazines, TV, streaming online video, movies and art history as visual sources. The images are placed within a context that disassociates it from its original meaning. As the work progresses the absurdity and disassociation is pushed to a level of confusion.

The work is an existential approach to identities that are implied by figures in images. The use of portraiture is crucial in question identity. The portraits do not aim to represent an identity but rather a lack of identity.

It is an examination of a world that does not exist. It disconnects the images from their meaning and pursues concepts of reality, perception, seduction, confusion and repulsion.

Projects:

One too Many Mornings
Cabin Fever
This is my manifesto..
He Went to Church...
Each night i spend it..

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