AFTERIMAGE 2016-2018 Afterimage is a series of abstract portraits of people. Instead of depicting faces and scenery, the expressionist style, the marks, and the colors denote the sense of the person or important events. The idea behind this work was to give form to meaningful but nonverbal experiences and characterize individuals by the physical process
AFTERIMAGES, 2016 2016, mixed media, oil paint, on canvas. various sizes from ten inches across to three feet across
The Foreigner! 2016 Websters Dictionary entry: foreigner, alien, non-native, stranger, outsider, immigrant, landed immigrant, refugee, settler, newcomer. ANTONYMS native. WORD xenophobia. With Foreigner! I explore and correlate contemporary and historical xenophobia with migration stories. The work involves research, photography, and employing mechanisms of abstraction. The material result includes pictures and didactic essays. For each piece
Artist in Residence, Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary. This project involved general and personal historical research concerning Jewish and Romani migration narratives, which resulted in an abstract visual biographical history. 2015
UNDERPINNING, 2015 These are combination pieces of abstracted photographs of details of paintings that I created. I printed photographs of the paintings onto canvas and mounted them on metal. The materials and tools of both the locations and the mediums are combined. Except for one thing: no Photoshop work in making the images. These
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![[Re]Telling](http://jwrensupak.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/thumbnail-e1707429212677-788x450.jpg "[Re]Telling")
Title: First We Removed our Shoes Media: Oil paint, mica powder, canvas, hollow core door. Waves of social amnesia threaten to erase the memories of genocides, including The Shoah. The reason for this includes, in parts, the whitewashing of history, embodied shame and fear, and the realities of what happened to be too excruciating to
