artist statement
As a painter preoccupied with deconstructed imagery of the body, Megan’s work draws from fragmented representations of the human figure as observed in film, photography, and social media. Deploying collage as an essential preliminary process where isolated components of the body are arranged to form new composite images, her paintings carefully merge scenes of close-up faces, isolated body parts, and cut-away gestures. By applying cinematic considerations of splicing, super-imposing, sequencing, and montage within a pictorial context, her works collectively investigate states of anxiety and euphoria associated with experiencing desire. Holding a reverence for the phenomenology of colour perception, Megan’s painting practice also integrates colour-field abstraction as a mainstay extension of her studio research.
CONTACT
megan.dyck@auarts.ca | @megan_dyck
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