About
Drawing on my upbringing on Long Island, and the ubiquity of dated thrift-store fabrics in my childhood home, I use pattern and its disruption to function as a stand-in for order and disorder more broadly. In reproducing and disordering patterns, my work depicts the tensions inherent in human attempts to structure life’s chaos, and the pleasure these tensions can create. I favor objects with signifiers of home (and supposed comfort) alongside clashing color and disorienting visual space to discuss the domicile, sexuality, chaos, and the anxiety the confluence of these things produces.
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Drawing on my upbringing on Long Island, and the ubiquity of dated thrift-store fabrics in my childhood home, I use pattern and its disruption to function as a stand-in for order and disorder more broadly. In reproducing and disordering patterns, my work depicts the tensions inherent in human attempts to structure life’s chaos, and the pleasure these tensions can create. I favor objects with signifiers of home (and supposed comfort) alongside clashing color and disorienting visual space to discuss the domicile, sexuality, chaos, and the anxiety the confluence of these things produces.
Contact
joy.scanlon@gmail.com
Photo Credit: Erika McCarthy
Photo Credit: Erika McCarthy