Wendy Kveck talks about her painting, “Couched”
The hybrid: The female figures in my paintings are often collages of multiple images. Through repetition, dissection and reconfiguration, the resulting hybrids may suggest shared experience, the construction or layering of identities, the potential of transformation ...
The face: I move between staging and photographing improvisations about female social rituals, and the solitary act of studio painting. The photographs generate source imagery for new paintings and vice versa. In “Couched,” I’ve collaged one of my staged photographs of a frosted woman’s face onto the body of an image sourced from the Internet to disrupt the viewer’s experience of that image. It’s also an over-the-top reference to consumption and a critique of the commodification of women in the media.
Line and color: Another layer in this work is the more recent influence of children’s art. I’ve been inspired by my niece’s earlier coloring books, in particular what I choose to interpret as the “subversive” color and mark-marking that disregards and in some cases destroys the pristine lines of Disney’s stylized princesses and heroines. The next generation of feminism!
Wendy Kveck’s work will show Dec. 4-27 at Trifecta Gallery, trifectagallery.com