2016

A Brief History. Koffler Gallery, 2016

(Installation Views and Entrance)

Curator: Mona Filip

For the decade prior to this work, I had been examining artistic legacies by re-imagining historic paintings. In the years leading up to this exhibition, as both world and personal events seemed to veer steeply towards the tragic, I felt compelled to tackle one of the most complex subjects of art history – human mortality.  Derived primarily from Dante’s allegories of the afterlife in The Divine Comedy and Stephen Hawking’s cosmological theories, the paintings re-interpret iconic works by Pieter Breugel and Francisco Goya, combining history, science and art with personal memories and recent news images of social upheavals to meditate on the human condition.