Marnie Gonzalez Warren- MFA Fine Art
GRID
Marnie González Warren is a painter based in Manchester, currently completing her MFA at Manchester School of Art. Her practice examines the relationship between image, painting, and contemporary culture. Working with humour and ambiguity, she explores how meaning is constructed and continually transformed through the act of looking.
Grid is a playful yet critical arrangement of 32 small paintings that borrows the visual structure of social media to both resist and embrace pervasive consumption systems. Accordingly, the wide range of subjects and scenes portrayed appears arbitrary, yet together constructs an ever-evolving, transforming, and contradictory portrait of contemporary life, binding the traditions of art history with those of contemporary digital culture.
The painted picture continually questions its own nature, as Marnie uses her own visual language, presented here, to invite the viewer to consider their own way of seeing, consuming, and meaning-making.
The Art School Commission has been a fun and informative opportunity that has allowed me to build a visual A - Z of my practice, permitting me to step back and observe the motifs that come together to inform my visual language. Shown together, as a grid, the piece celebrates and explores how smaller fragments of the creative process come together to inform a wider whole, negotiating with the paint and surface itself.
