Maddie (2011)

Maddie, oils on panel, 10x8in. Portrait of the artist's virtual muse, posed over iChat with its rudimentary greenscreen toy.

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Exhibition May 18-31, 2012 Opening Reception Friday, May 18th, 7-9pm Space Womb Gallery 22-48 Jackson Ave. Long Island City, NY 11101 Download press release (pdf)

Teleportraiture is a series of small, intimate oil portraits, painted from live poses, by remote video chat, via Skype, Google Hangout, or iChat. Janet Bruesselbach launched Teleportraiture in 2011 as a Kickstarter campaign. The subject of each portrait is a backer of the campaign, or a loved one volunteered by the backer. Janet is pleased to announce that the 45 resulting paintings, completed between October 2011 and February 2012, will be displayed in a 2-week gallery exhibition in New York City, in downtown Long Island City, to be more precise. Attendance at the opening reception on Friday, May 18th, will also be possible remotely through a simultaneous online video chat.

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Artist Statement

My portraits examine the intimacy generated during the interaction between painter and subject - the painting is artifact of a performance of relationship and conversation. In the past few years interacting remotely in this same facial, visual and vocal way has become commonplace. In videochat, we alter our faces from the way people look at computers to how they look at people. Rather than heightening anxiety, services like gchat and skype make us more used to watching non-performing faces. This examines the strange intimacy and charged emotions around communicating remotely by making the archaic oil portraiture tradition site-unspecific. The paintings evidence the intermediary camera and compression, generating artifact artifacts, and reflect their particular system of old and new technologies.

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