SPECTRUM
// Julius Killerby

 

Self-Portrait, 2021

Oil on canvas
20x40cm
$1,600

This self-portrait, in a formal and a narrative sense, represents varying degrees of transparency and perception. The omission of my eyes is, first and foremost, a metaphor for the depersonalized nature of the technological age. More than this, however, it calls into question the nature of light and perception. Does light exist if one doesn’t have eyes to perceive it? There is also an obvious irony in the depiction of oneself as a blind man.

 The picture is divided into two spaces. On the left, where I stand, I have used a dark glaze which, when permeated with light, creates a sense of depth and spatial complexity. This is adjacent, however, to the opaque dark green square which covers the rest of the painting. Beneath this I have in fact painted the yellow and pink lines which we see in the backdrop on the left. The opacity of the paint, however, makes this invisible. Again, one questions whether something exists if light does not illuminate it.

 

Morgan Curtis, 2021

Oil on canvas
20x40cm
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Social Fabric Study, 2021

Oil on canvas
20x10cm
$800

In this painting I have used fabric as a metaphor for society. The cartoonish explosion in the bottom right is meant to suggest a rupturing of the societal fabric. The dark green paint which borders the fabric suggests what it does in the self-portrait. If light cannot penetrate the dark paint, is the underpainting really there? Or rather, is something less real if we cannot see it.

 I have, again, used a very dark glaze to cover the fabric, generating an interplay between the subject and the light in the exhibition space. The explosion, however, stands in contrast to this as an almost comical representation of simulated light.

Mia Curtis, 2021

Oil on canvas
20x40cm
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