Katayoun Asadi & Alyssa Dupuis
Distorted by Katayoun Asadi and Alyssa Dupuis
The title, Distorted, comes from the distortion of reality, both with the use of mirrors and digital renderings. Included artworks invite and encourage viewers to reflect and theorize on what they see in the pieces with connection to reality.
The inclusion of mirrors and their respective canvases are inspired by reflection and reinterpreting reality, as each painting is either painted directly on a mirrored surface or made using them as a reference to create distorted versions of the surrounding world. This is carried over to other canvases presenting reconstructed variations of several art historical works which depict landscapes and still lives. The curation of all the pieces aims to question what makes artworks and objects recognizable, and what occurs when certain causal links are removed. By merging both mirrors and technological modifications with traditional methods of artistic representation, reality becomes deconstructed and stitched in intriguing ways.
About The Artists
Katayoun is a current Arts and Sciences student in her fourth year, minoring in Studio Art, Art History, and Biology. Mainly working with oil paints, she experiments with how digital alterations to art historical pieces alter the meaning and interpretation of the original works, and how changing the original colour palette, shape/size of canvases, and representational elements within pieces affect their recognizability.
Alyssa is a current Studio Arts major in her fourth year. Primarily working with oil paints, her work is largely autobiographical, dealing with themes of mental health and the search for meaning. Her work has a focus on how light and reflections can change the way we perceive things and alter memory.