Linda James

People

People

Paintings and Drawings by Linda James

Chamber Gallery Rangiora 11 June - 13 July 2017
141 Percival Street, Rangiora, New Zealand 7400


Artist's Statement

Using the craft of representational drawing and painting, this series of portraits appropriates people from populist media, and combines them with commonly used platitudes to create a montage.

The works explore how traditional notions of identity and authenticity are destabilized and trivialized in an environment where the commerce in images and words (via television, the internet, and advertising) has reached saturation point.

James has a preoccupation with our experience of reality as a media construct and presents her 'solution'; to re-present these fleeting images as carefully considered paintings in the reflective space of the art gallery.

The exhibition generates interest in issues such as identity and place, the contemporary culture of the image, and the shifting positionalities of the image, the words, the viewer and the world.


Other people 1 2017
acrylic oil on canvas 405 x 300

Other people 2 2017
acrylic oil on canvas 405 x 300

Other people 3 2017
acrylic oil on canvas 405 x 300

Other people 4 2017
acrylic oil on canvas 405 x 300

Baby 2017
acrylic oil on canvas 510 x 510

Past Present Future 2017 - Hover over image to enlarge
acrylic oil on canvas 510 x 510

Never mind 2017 - Hover over image to enlarge
charcoal on Kraft paper and black wire 1900 x 1070

Please 2017 - Hover over image to enlarge
pencil on paper and suspended number 8 wire 1450 x 1200

Sorry 2017 - Hover over image to enlarge
pen ink on paper on chalk grid 1425 x 450

Us 2017 - Hover over image to enlarge
pencil on paper on chalk grid, embroidered word

Them 2017 - Hover over image to enlarge
pencil on paper on chalk grid, embroidered word

Thank You 2017 - Hover over image to enlarge
acrylic oil on canvas and stenciled words 2600 x 1000, individual portraits 240 x 330