VOLTA NEW YORK | Kiera Bennett & Hugh Mendes | Mar 2018

“The painter, the artist’s studio and the act of painting itself are often the subject of the work. Autobiographical references are filtered through an instinctive selection process. Driven by a desire to make the fleeting and the fugitive permanent and immovable, my paintings are abstractions of these experiences.”

“The use of newspaper clippings provides a very flat spatial field, recalling certain trompe l’oeil 17th century still life painting. Obituaries condense a life into a few column inches and a single image – a scrap of newsprint that becomes a heavy token, a memento, even an icon, when rendered in paint.”