Zoe Nelson
I make abstract paintings that are rooted in embodied experience
and psychological states. The color is a vehicle for moving
between emotive states, and is often vibrant, juicy, and intuitive.
Illusionistic holes reveal lower layers of shallow space and
sometimes depict contemporary technological processes such
as cropping, layering, and arranging. At other times, a hole
becomes an eye, or begins to reference bodily or mystical forms
of openness and blockage. What is interior and exterior often
shifts within a single painting. Together, the paintings reference
a way of looking that is as much about the experience of scrolling
through Instagram as it is about the sensory experience of
being in a body.