Anthony Cudahy paints scenes from films, videos and photographs. When painting from a moving image he embraces the artifacting and distortion of a VHS or digital recording. This 'levelling' of certain areas of light, colour or shade is something that I really like, and the subtle use of texture to define features. The way paint has been layered gives the characters a translucent and ghostly quality. His choice of colour is often far from reality and working in oil a single brushstroke can combine multiple areas of different colour blurring the image and the lines between the reality of the photographic reference and some dreamlike place the paintings inhabit.
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