Lydia Mutone

Region: South

Website: http://lydiamutone.cargo.site

City / State: Richmond, VA

 Mutone’s musings center on figures within intimate settings and warping memory. She employs abstraction by pushing images back and forth within a digital editing realm and funneling the compilation into oil paint. She works to mediate her opaque, geometric paint application with the overall impact of translucent, layered fluidity. This obfuscation of Mutone’s digital touch plays with legibility and allows the viewer to piece together the composition. Duplications of a single subject are set in motion, yet housed in a stagnant space. In these dramatic interactions, limbs are revealed and concealed as the figures stumble over each other to take the foreground.