| Christine Cuddihy
My practice deals primarily with aspects of memory, perception, and awareness. By cross-referencing areas of the imagination with raw and creative source material, my paintings express something that becomes fragmented, awkward, and simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. I explore the boundaries between physical and imaginative realities, and acknowledge artifice and abstraction. The spaces I deal with are conceptual and incomplete. They are fragmented, like the spaces I am initially drawn to: those that have an atmosphere of faded grandeur, and those that are bleak and imperfect. The paintings have in common a sense of disintegration, of abjectness and abandonment, and yet contradict one another in their sense of mystery and directness, and of atmospheric and literal representation.
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