Amanda Clyne

Inspired by images of fantasy, glamour and seduction, Amanda Clyne's paintings confront the feelings of desire and longing inherent in our experience of images. Clyne is interested in the evolving dialogue between images of the past and present, and examining the continued role and relevance of painting within this context. The pop artists and photo-realists of the 1960s and 1970s began to challenge the assumptions regarding the medium-specific traits of photography and painting by painting photographic images that, according to Michel Foucault, produced “not a painting based on a photograph, nor a photograph made up to look like a painting, but an image caught in its trajectory from photograph to painting.” Clyne's paintings continue this work. Referencing the many lenses through which our world is transformed into illusion – the eye, the mind, the camera, the screen – her paintings are invitations to linger and look and experience the sensation of seeing anew. Michel Foucault, “Photogenic Painting” Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, eds. Gérard Fromanger: Photogenic Painting (London: Black Dog Publishing Limited, 1999) 83-105, 91.

Chain Reaction 2010, Oil on canvas, 49" x 31" more details...

A View From Within 2009 65" x 25" Oil on canvas more details...

Double Take 2009 diptych, 49" x 34" Oil on canvas more details...

Mirror, Mirror 2009, oil on canvas, diptych, each panel 36" x 36" more details...