SCREEN SHOT
Sep. 10, 2022 – Oct. 15, 2023
Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT
Comprising two bodies of work—notably produced a decade apart—Screen Shot probes Rooney’s longstanding fixation with the way screens have become persistent mediators of our world and ourselves in it. Both titled I did a series in a very hot August, they are distinguished only by the years of completion (2012 and 2022), akin to the way phones and operating systems are renamed with each generation or upgrade.
Though stylistically different, both series utilize scale as a formal and conceptual strategy, emphasizing the way in which our perceptions have been recast in miniature through the devices we carry, and in turn that carry us in their image.
I did a series in a very hot August (the second)
2012
Oil on drywall, gesso, spackle and plaster.
9 in x 13 in
I did a series in a very hot August (the third)
2022
Oil on handcarved wood, mounted on ceramic tile, mounted on wood
10 in x 10 in.
I did a series in a very hot August
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2012
Oil on drywall, gesso, spackle and plaster.
9 in x 13 in
Left: I did a series in a very hot August (the fourth)
2022
Oil on hand-carved wood, mounted on ceramic tile, mounted on wood
10 in x 10 in.
Middle: I did a series in a very hot August (the tenth)
2022
Oil on hand-carved wood, mounted on ceramic tile, mounted on wood
3 in x 6 in
Right: I did a series in a very hot August (the second)
2012
Oil on drywall, gesso, spackle and plaster.
9 in x 13 in