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“Portraits of Paintings” was a series of works I made from 2009-2013. Looking back over the previous decade at the time, I began thinking through the transformation and abstraction of human relations that was underway—the status of the physical body had become increasingly unstable. Smart phones and social sites enabled one to speak from multiple places at the same time, and I imagined this newly dispersed and augmented body we performed as a ghost, a shadow of its former being.
Scrolling through the dauntingly rich history of painting hyperlinked by Google Image just a few years earlier I …