Marnie Gonzalez Warren - MA Fine Art
My practice explores the relationship between painting, image, and culture, questioning the systems and social implications that construct visual culture.
In my recent work, I select and manipulate objects from my surroundings to examine how meaning and image operate in the context of mass-media consumption, and how context transforms them, drawing on Roland Barthes’ ideas on meaning and myth, where objects are charged with associations. I’m interested in how painting can simultaneously reflect, celebrate, and critique its contents, resonating with Philip Guston’s idea of painters' work as a portrait of themselves or the world around them.
By using objects that allude to space and time, together with a saturated colour palette, I reflect on meaning-making within a culture of image spectacle, overexposure, and overwhelming visual consumption.
