Elaina Swanson Goodness Gracious Painting elainasart@gmail.com elainaswanson.com
Goodness Gracious is a collection of inquiries and confessions surrounding the sincerity of expressing emotions. I draw from my own experiences as a young woman where youth and girlishness have been self-imposed emotional barriers and weaknesses as well strengths and attributes. I couple kitsch and popular culture imagery with High-Church and high-art motifs into romantic relationships to bring them both to the same level of genuine affirmation inside of my own visual lexicon. I labor with each piece, cutting, pasting, painting and altering in order to convey change as well an internal complexity, allowing both myself and the work to be enthus- iastically complicated. I wield the cliché of the over-used and over- played to reclaim sincerity; to send a love letter to the things and people I adore in the only way that I know how.
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