Sloane Snure Paullus

Fusing a Pop-Art approach with highly traditional engravings of powerful men, this body of work questions traditional signifiers of masculinity and power. By using the stereotypically feminine media of watercolor and glitter, these paintings illuminate the artifice of wealth, power, and prestige on display in the original images. A garish palette, make up, and clothing reference the androgyny of the Glam-Rock and Hair Metal era, contemporizing the etchings and foregrounding their inherent ambiguity.

Using clashing fields of referents, an ornate, mystical aesthetic, printmaking, and glitter, this body of work fuses Baroque and Modernist conventions. My work is a celebration of the idiosyncrasies, superficiality, and instability of the lines we create between things. The logic of these organizing systems is often taken as a given because their contents blind us to the underlying beliefs and value systems woven into their form. Our actual experience of the world is a thicket of convergences and densely layered context. My audience is forced into the role of investigator, philosopher, and theorist. Like Borges, Calabrese, or Foucault, viewers must unravel the Baroque logic binding my work together. My work presents, or refers to, a possible order only to emphasize that the order, no matter how beautiful and well-constructed, is ultimately only a scrim through which the world is to be perceived.

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