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① Artwork:
Crash (Yellow)
In this painting, the artist uses a car crash image as a metaphor for contemporary American society’s latent violence. The closely-cropped image, revealed from within a field of vivid color, explores how subtexts like toxic rage, careless abandon, and other societal ills have occupied painting over its long history.
Meredith Sellers’ art uses the window to consider how we conceive both architectural and digital space. Acting as both a view out onto the world and a barrier from it, the window—and its descendant, the digital screen—in these paintings act as portals or gateways that explore systems of wealth, power, and violence. By borrowing images from art history, the media, historical archives, and stock photography, Sellers’ work asks: Does painting enforce these images of power?
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③ Artist:
Meredith Sellers’ art uses the window to consider how we conceive both architectural and digital space. Acting as both a view out onto the world and a barrier from it, the window—and its descendant, the digital screen—act as portals or gateways in her work where borrowed images, often obfuscated, are forced to converse with each other to create new, enigmatic languages. By exploring systems of wealth, power, and violence in images from art history, the media, historical archives, and stock photography, Sellers’ art looks at the medium’s history and asks: Does painting enforce these images of power?
Meredith Sellers was born in 1988 in Baltimore, MD, and lives in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
Sellers has exhibited her work at Fragment Gallery in New York City, NY (2023); Workplace in London, UK (2023); Take It Easy in Atlanta, GA (2022); Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at UArts in Philadelphia, PA (2021); the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA (2013); and elsewhere.
Her work has been featured in publications such as Art Papers, Young Space, and Maake Magazine.
In this painting, the artist uses a car crash image as a metaphor for contemporary American society’s latent violence. The closely-cropped image, revealed from within a field of vivid color, explores how subtexts like toxic rage, careless abandon, and other societal ills have occupied painting over its long history.More
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