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Karla Siegel\u2019s paintings are about watching.\u00a0\u00a0 Implied rectangles of colored light are embedded within fields of darkness, capturing tenuous images within their frames.\u00a0 A mountain scene dissolves into tints of blue; a portrait comes in and out of focus as it merges in a pool of white.\u00a0 Light saturates and obscures these fluidly painted images, connecting isolated scenes.\u00a0 Like the flickering glow from a nearby television, Karla Siegel\u2019s Screens<\/em> series is both mesmerizing and alienating.<\/p>\n

The luminescent vignettes create the illusion of a blown-out photograph, but the edges are amorphous as if the image is shifting. Not simply stagnant representations of movie stills, Siegel\u2019s paintings remind us that television is transmitted color.\u00a0 The screen projects an additive spectrum, where color is received as light and mixed in eye.\u00a0 The paintings, which must naturally employ subtractive methods, embody an optic contradiction.<\/p>\n

By reminding us of the \u2018transmitted\u2019 quality of the images on-screen, the artist points to the shared experience of broadcast television.\u00a0 Solitary, but not necessarily alone, viewers are connected through simultaneously received images.\u00a0 Nodes of blue reflected light form a greater constellation.\u00a0 Aesthetically, Karla Siegel does not impose a cultural hierarchy: \u201c<\/em>To me the blue glow from the TV is not so different than the glow from a Vermeer window\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Painted from photographs of television screens, this series also brings up questions of reproduction and resolution.\u00a0 The images are many steps away from the original source, the resulting degradation moving towards abstraction.\u00a0\u00a0 Further and further removed from physical observation, these tangible paintings capture a fleeting, passive encounter. Tapping into our shared \u2013 yet isolated \u2013 viewing habits, Karla Siegel has found a silent beauty in the inherent contradiction. Her paintings seize moments of contemplation amidst an unending sequence of images.<\/p>\n

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