Through the medium of oil paint my work captures imagery of the everyday in New York City to highlight the dystopian reality of 2020. My practice focuses on the screen as a surface of mediation, protection, isolation, safety, and fear. Together we acknowledge the courage of our essential workers during these unprecedented times, and their protection of and service to the community at large. I recognize the screen as a barrier and charged index that both separates and unites us. This physical boundary functions as a space from which to consider our privilege and reflect upon our position as human beings during these unprecedented times. It is a barrier that mediates the body and incites questions regarding human desire and fear: the inability to touch during a global health crisis and the longing to connect.

Untitled (07/16/2020)

My painting practice considers haptic sensations and the representation and embodiment of touch. I create a space in which desire, tactility and the digital and real body are in play. I explore mediated corporeality, at turns rendering the body into an abject and sensuous landscape filtered through myriad screens. 

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Lisa McCleary