Jo Berry
www.joberry.org
@joberry01
Statement:
Taking photographs from a variety of screens as source material (film stills taken from YouTube, screengrabs of ReCAPCHTA images) Jo Berry’s paintings are in dialogue with the status of the image today and what is going on in the world viewed through different screens.
Through the process of uploading, downloading, cropping and editing these low-resolution images, there is a natural move towards abstraction, with visual references becoming hard to find.
Working with a corrupted image – in this case of these paintings, a classic piece of cinema screengrabbed from YouTube and a pixelated ReCAPTCHA image - Jo’s painstaking paintings become spatially ambiguous, and a dreamlike narrative emerges.
www.joberry.org
@joberry01
Statement:
Taking photographs from a variety of screens as source material (film stills taken from YouTube, screengrabs of ReCAPCHTA images) Jo Berry’s paintings are in dialogue with the status of the image today and what is going on in the world viewed through different screens.
Through the process of uploading, downloading, cropping and editing these low-resolution images, there is a natural move towards abstraction, with visual references becoming hard to find.
Working with a corrupted image – in this case of these paintings, a classic piece of cinema screengrabbed from YouTube and a pixelated ReCAPTCHA image - Jo’s painstaking paintings become spatially ambiguous, and a dreamlike narrative emerges.
Untitled 2021 (The Zone)
90 x 120cm Acrylic on canvas 2021 |
ReCAPTCHA Crosswalk 2022
120 x 120cm Acrylic on canvas 2022 |