Faye Wheeler 'Baby Blue'
Drawer 5- “Baby Blue” 2020. 16.5 x 9 inches.
Artist Statement
Shadows emote, checkered grids undulate, and space collapses. The table sits awkwardly, unaware of its significance. An ambiguous memory shapes their meaning. Images of grid, shadow, table, and space are made to replicate moments in memory and of consciousness. There is familiarity within ambiguity. These objects are created by thought and memory of my family and my home. Memory that took place in a gridded space; spilling orange juice on my grandmother’s formica tile floor, baths in the pink tile bathroom, ghosts in the kitchen, becoming friends with my shadow. It is never the same table. A grid is a pattern, these grids repeat memory as space. Table, grid, shadow, table, shadow, table shadow, grid, grid, grid, shadow of table. These are memories of spaces, these are physical spaces, and these are abstractions of spaces. These are headspaces, domestic spaces, happy spaces, flat spaces, deep spaces, twisting, gridded, warped, unstable, dark and light spaces. These are in the kitchen, bathroom, garage, attic; home. Unsafe space occupied by anxious objects who scutter across the tile into flat shadow. This is a world inside our world, a place for emotions and memories to linger and manifest. Sadness, anxiety, joy, and pain live here, and have created their own consciousness. This world has room for growth and room for change. There is hope in the shadows..
Artist Bio
Faye Wheeler is an artist currently based out of Iowa City, Iowa where she recently graduated with her MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in May 2020. Originally from the Bay Area in California, Faye’s work researches her own presence within mental and physical space. Her work explores anxiety, depression, loneliness as tools of human existence in an auto-biographical sense. She explores image making with painting, printmaking, drawing and collage as a tool of communication. In the exploration of thought, memory, and consciousness, the shadows emote, checkered grids undulate, and space collapses.
Drawer 5- “Baby Blue” 2020. 16.5 x 9 inches.
Artist Statement
Shadows emote, checkered grids undulate, and space collapses. The table sits awkwardly, unaware of its significance. An ambiguous memory shapes their meaning. Images of grid, shadow, table, and space are made to replicate moments in memory and of consciousness. There is familiarity within ambiguity. These objects are created by thought and memory of my family and my home. Memory that took place in a gridded space; spilling orange juice on my grandmother’s formica tile floor, baths in the pink tile bathroom, ghosts in the kitchen, becoming friends with my shadow. It is never the same table. A grid is a pattern, these grids repeat memory as space. Table, grid, shadow, table, shadow, table shadow, grid, grid, grid, shadow of table. These are memories of spaces, these are physical spaces, and these are abstractions of spaces. These are headspaces, domestic spaces, happy spaces, flat spaces, deep spaces, twisting, gridded, warped, unstable, dark and light spaces. These are in the kitchen, bathroom, garage, attic; home. Unsafe space occupied by anxious objects who scutter across the tile into flat shadow. This is a world inside our world, a place for emotions and memories to linger and manifest. Sadness, anxiety, joy, and pain live here, and have created their own consciousness. This world has room for growth and room for change. There is hope in the shadows..
Artist Bio
Faye Wheeler is an artist currently based out of Iowa City, Iowa where she recently graduated with her MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in May 2020. Originally from the Bay Area in California, Faye’s work researches her own presence within mental and physical space. Her work explores anxiety, depression, loneliness as tools of human existence in an auto-biographical sense. She explores image making with painting, printmaking, drawing and collage as a tool of communication. In the exploration of thought, memory, and consciousness, the shadows emote, checkered grids undulate, and space collapses.
Drawer 5- “Baby Blue” 2020. 16.5 x 9 inches.
Artist Statement
Shadows emote, checkered grids undulate, and space collapses. The table sits awkwardly, unaware of its significance. An ambiguous memory shapes their meaning. Images of grid, shadow, table, and space are made to replicate moments in memory and of consciousness. There is familiarity within ambiguity. These objects are created by thought and memory of my family and my home. Memory that took place in a gridded space; spilling orange juice on my grandmother’s formica tile floor, baths in the pink tile bathroom, ghosts in the kitchen, becoming friends with my shadow. It is never the same table. A grid is a pattern, these grids repeat memory as space. Table, grid, shadow, table, shadow, table shadow, grid, grid, grid, shadow of table. These are memories of spaces, these are physical spaces, and these are abstractions of spaces. These are headspaces, domestic spaces, happy spaces, flat spaces, deep spaces, twisting, gridded, warped, unstable, dark and light spaces. These are in the kitchen, bathroom, garage, attic; home. Unsafe space occupied by anxious objects who scutter across the tile into flat shadow. This is a world inside our world, a place for emotions and memories to linger and manifest. Sadness, anxiety, joy, and pain live here, and have created their own consciousness. This world has room for growth and room for change. There is hope in the shadows..
Artist Bio
Faye Wheeler is an artist currently based out of Iowa City, Iowa where she recently graduated with her MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in May 2020. Originally from the Bay Area in California, Faye’s work researches her own presence within mental and physical space. Her work explores anxiety, depression, loneliness as tools of human existence in an auto-biographical sense. She explores image making with painting, printmaking, drawing and collage as a tool of communication. In the exploration of thought, memory, and consciousness, the shadows emote, checkered grids undulate, and space collapses.