About The Work
OBJ 1211 was recently exhibited in Album, an exhibition of new works by Julia Rooney at Freight+Volume (January - February 2023). At radically different scales—as small as one’s phone-screen to as wide as six feet of social distance—Rooney’s paintings compel the viewer to look and to feel in person, to move their body up close, then far away, and close again. As though adjusting the resolution, viewers may discern detail within each painting, or the choreography between the works as they playfully inhabit the gallery’s architecture. This embodied experience of viewing, where zooming-in and zooming-out yield different information, underscores Rooney’s ongoing fascination with scale as both a formal and conceptual tool for grounding the medium of painting IRL amid the homogenizing forces of our digital screens. Central to this idea of embodiment is the painting process itself. Wielding many types of paint—from latex house paint to oil—Rooney engages in a labor-intensive, manual process that involves pouring, sanding, stitching, scraping, glazing, and glueing.
Courtesy of Freight+Volume
About Julia Rooney
Painting
Oil and latex paint on canvas
40.00 x 40.00 x 2.00 in
101.6 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm
This work is signed by the artist.
About The Work
OBJ 1211 was recently exhibited in Album, an exhibition of new works by Julia Rooney at Freight+Volume (January - February 2023). At radically different scales—as small as one’s phone-screen to as wide as six feet of social distance—Rooney’s paintings compel the viewer to look and to feel in person, to move their body up close, then far away, and close again. As though adjusting the resolution, viewers may discern detail within each painting, or the choreography between the works as they playfully inhabit the gallery’s architecture. This embodied experience of viewing, where zooming-in and zooming-out yield different information, underscores Rooney’s ongoing fascination with scale as both a formal and conceptual tool for grounding the medium of painting IRL amid the homogenizing forces of our digital screens. Central to this idea of embodiment is the painting process itself. Wielding many types of paint—from latex house paint to oil—Rooney engages in a labor-intensive, manual process that involves pouring, sanding, stitching, scraping, glazing, and glueing.
Courtesy of Freight+Volume
About Julia Rooney
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