SIMONE KENNDY DOIG – WAIST DEEP
2022-08-08Kennedy Doig’s working process typically begins with photographs. Using a basic iPhone camera as a pocket notebook, a sketch pad, or a visual diary to document the sights and events of daily life, the artist later returns to these snapshots, breaks them apart, and collages the locations and characters together into timeless memory scenescapes. A long and laborious time is spent on each composition—drawing, etching, and then painting the same subject over and over again to break away from the original source material and disturb the easy accessibility of conventional realism. What results are images that are less direct and more mysterious in ways undeniable yet barely perceptible, gently veering in and out of the surreal in a subtle play of Magic Realism.
Opposite – Train with Shane, 2018-2019
Exhibition runs through to August 19th, 2022
Baert Gallery
1923 S Santa Fe Avenue
CA 90021
Los Angeles
