Felicity Spear

These paintings, whose surfaces consist of minimal, abstract and distorted anamorphic images, reference the optics of the camera obscura through the use of pin-hole photographs, as well as fragments of mechanically reproduced art-historical images. The surfaces of these works vary from opaque, to reflective and transparent, creating a tension between flatness and illusion. The three dimensional floor model, based on a tessellated floor, a characteristic of Baroque architecture and referencing a fragment from the 17thC. Dutch painter Vermeer’s work The Music Lesson (1662-1665), is also like a raised sarcophagus. It is said that photography re-visits memory.This dark and melancholic form, is an object both in and of space, between past and the present, between loss and renewal.