Artist Ira Upin is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. From the ‘Too Much TV (Modified Visions from the Tube)’ series. To see Ira’s body of work, click on any photograph.
All paintings, 2019/2020, Oil on Panel, 18″x 24″
As I have gotten older I need more break time from sitting in the studio and painting. So I find myself taking breaks and watching TV. As I have always watched a lot of TV, at times I would feel at the same time both guilty and engaged while watching. Guilty because there is the criticism in our culture of it being a waste of our time – yet engaging, especially now with the advent of hi-def flat screen technology and because of the visual, illuminated panoply of images that are constantly at our fingertips. So as I vegetate off to the left of my Flatscreen HD TV I started taking photos, with my phone, of images that appealed to me. Using the initial photo I then alter and add to the original images for the paintings. My intention for these was to go a little lighter than what I did for my last solo show “Fear and Anger” in 2017. But as things have not changed much since then from both a political and now a public health perspective, these new works still seem to express the dark and ominous circumstances in which we find ourselves.
All images and text © Ira Upin
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By Ira Upin
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