Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 6 PM – 9 PM
Isabella Garrucho Fine Art
40 W Putnam Ave
Greenwich, Connecticut 06830
Television pretends to reflect our realities as if it were a mirror; however, it does not give us a pure reflection. We are shown things from elsewhere only in a prepared, ready-made version leaving no room for our own judgment—we are unable to resist simply accepting, as reality, the images placed before us.
My paintings in the Branded Series explore the influence of television and mass media on our culture. I appropriate images from high-end fashion advertisements that I believe contribute to the construct of our false realties—focusing on issues of the body. As a whole, our culture is consumed by the way our bodies look, and it is the images on television and in advertising that we try to emulate. The images mass media presents become self-fulfilling prophecies as media shapes popular culture rather than merely reflecting it. From television and mass media we learn who we are, how we should dress, how we should act, what we should look like, what is sexy and what is not, who has power and who does not, what is of value and what is not, what is right and what is not. My paintings are a social commentary reflecting these issues.