DIGITAL PORTRAITS IMAGINED AND REMEMBERED 2021 Instagram @judepittmanstudio
TOP PICKS on Instagram by SFMOMA, NYMOMA, Tate Museum, Oakland Museum of California,
Brooklyn Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and more
TOP PICKS on Instagram by SFMOMA, NYMOMA, Tate Museum, Oakland Museum of California,
Brooklyn Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and more
In quantum physics, Schrödinger’s cat is an animal that is theoretically both dead and alive, and thus a violation of common sense. Pittman’s models are both real and unreal, reality-based and imaginary. They attest to the continued power of painting, even in the wired (or Bluetooth) era, as a wondrous vehicle for the simultaneous exploration of the universe and the self, whether it takes the form of colored mud applied to woven plant fibers with a bristled stick, or glowing pixels commanded by the Artist-Creator’s life-sparking fingertip. — DeWitt Cheng, San Francisco-based critic, curator, and blogger
Artist's Statement- It began while watching the nightly news commentators.
My mind began to stream away from interviews with exhausted hospital staffers, video of blanketed bodies with respirator faces, degradation of our natural landscape, warring factions.
I picked up my ipad. On the ipad I had previously limned about 50 drawings from live models before sheltering at home from the pandemic. So I aimlessless swiped through them, stopping at one or another. Mindlessly my finger began to engage with the mechanics of the art app, Procreate. Drawing, painting, cropping, distorting, evolving images became primarily portraits, or “heads” more specifically. From that night, the activity became a daily obsession. Sixty-three portraits later, I’m now painting from a live model on Zoom twice a week. The recent memory of painting from the zoom model emerges when I make portraits now. Jude Pittman, 2021
Newest portraits can be seen @judepittmanstudio on instagram. Prints available on paper or metal. contact: pittmanjude@gmail.com
Artist's Statement- It began while watching the nightly news commentators.
My mind began to stream away from interviews with exhausted hospital staffers, video of blanketed bodies with respirator faces, degradation of our natural landscape, warring factions.
I picked up my ipad. On the ipad I had previously limned about 50 drawings from live models before sheltering at home from the pandemic. So I aimlessless swiped through them, stopping at one or another. Mindlessly my finger began to engage with the mechanics of the art app, Procreate. Drawing, painting, cropping, distorting, evolving images became primarily portraits, or “heads” more specifically. From that night, the activity became a daily obsession. Sixty-three portraits later, I’m now painting from a live model on Zoom twice a week. The recent memory of painting from the zoom model emerges when I make portraits now. Jude Pittman, 2021
Newest portraits can be seen @judepittmanstudio on instagram. Prints available on paper or metal. contact: pittmanjude@gmail.com
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