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Arts+Leisure opens an exhibition of recent work by Julia Rooney
Julia Rooney, @SomeHighTide, 2020, Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Arts+Leisure is presenting @SomeHighTiide, an exhibition of recent work by Julia Rooney. The exhibition will run from January 16th through February 21st, 2021.
Comprising a series of two by two-inch paintings, Julia Rooneys exhibition @SomeHighTide queries our intimate relationships with our smartphones and their attendant social networks, with particular regard to the ways such platforms shape our habits of visual consumption and comprehension.
By adopting the harsh dimensional constraints of Instagram and similar photo-sharing applications, Rooney acknowledges the ubiquity of the smartphone screen, while her decidedly traditional mediums of oil paint and linen disturbs their veneer of manufactured precision and homogeneity. As hand-wrought effigies of the Instagram photo-square, Rooneys paintings call attention to the inherent inco