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Shine a Light on Me and The Allegory of Touch
Although Adeline’s medium of choice is oil painting, she works in a range of mediums, from photography to digital animation. Technically, Adeline approaches her canvases with a heavy brush, infusing a luminous physicality into her compositions by using bright colors and thick, confident mark making. Invoking Marshall McLuhan’s idea that “the medium is the message,” her work emphasizes the way an object is painted as much as the object itself. Her paintings provide viewers with a highly sensorial experience, one that connects the act of looking to the act of painting. Portraiture, broadly construed, is her primary pursuit: Adeline’s paintings illuminate images and items from everyday life while exploring the many ways in which a person can be represented — even in the absence of a face.
Adeline Moore Gerety is a painter and visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Adeline is a sophomore at Gallatin after transferring to NYU from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She studies art history and studio art and has trained in painting for the last five years. She is particularly interested in the intersection of her two disciplines — and the generative dialogue between analysis and practice informs her work as an artist. Outside of academic settings, she has assisted several working artists and recently interned at the Boston Athenaeum. Adeline plans to continue writing about and creating art, employing her concentration in a curatorial setting.
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