gerold mooney

Hometown:

philadelphia

Statement:

Artist Statement
 

My work has slowly developed an interest in an exploration of distinct spatial and psychological relationships of people amidst a fractured landscape. Hovering between the twisted logic of dreams and our perceived reality, I strive to strike a universal chord of memory revealing a specific time and place either imagined or real. Using a variety of images taken from my own photographs or culled from various forms of media I reorganize and reinterpret, thereby turning a banal series of images into self- defining monumental moments.
My paintings of the landscape deal with the psychological relationship of the figure to its surrounding environment. These worlds are at once strangely familiar and at the same time repulsive. The paintings are at times devoid of any physical human presence yet one cannot help or escape the questions and draw conclusions about the people or societies who once inhabited these spaces or still do.

Background:

Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA

Education
2005-08 University of the Arts, Bachelors in Fine Arts
1999-00 New York Studio School
1998-99 Parsons School of Design

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