photo by Nguyen Ba Han
Artist's Statement
These paintings have evolved through a process of studying and researching the narratives and conventions used in advertising, particularly those of the fashion industry. I work directly from fashion magazines, filing images by designer or theme and then referencing them for narrative and semiotics. Through a collage process I manipulate the images to deflect their meaning and intention. I then work from the collages to make large-scale paintings. I am working to forge and discover parallels between the images of the media and painting, their shared conventions for beauty and the spaces they create and inhabit in youth culture. Identity development regarding self and loss of self are explored through this process. I carry an incongruous collection of these media images in my mind. As they demand my attention and invade my space I react to their aggression through painting.
Biography
Theresa Pfarr was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended the University of Cincinnati, College of DAAP, where she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in painting in 1998. Upon graduation and through the following year she received several portrait and mural commissions. In the fall of 1999 she enrolled as a Post-Baccalaureate student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. After completing Post-Baccalaureate study she began exhibiting nationally in many group and solo shows, which include a solo exhibit at City Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and an international juried exhibit in Wakefield, Rhode Island at the Hera Gallery. In 2004 she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Joan Mitchell Grant nomination. While obtaining her MFA degree she taught basic painting and advanced painting courses. She is currently represented by Modern Arts Midwest in Lincoln, NE Pegasus Gallery in Corvallis, Oregon ADA Gallery in Richmond, VA . She is a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. She has been a resident artist at the RAIR program in Roswell, New Mexico, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a 2006 Puffin Foundation Grant recipient and has recently been awarded a residency for 2007 from the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming.
See Ms. Pfarr's paintings on the following pages:
"Frivolity"
"Title to come 2006"
"Marker"
"Veiled"
"Girl in Pink Gloves"
"Untitled 2005"
"Untitled 2006"
Kaliedoscope
Medias Res
Gallery Representation:
Modern Arts Midwest
Pegasus Art Gallery
Ada Gallery
email: tpfarr@gmail.com
Website: Theresa Pfarr
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