Center, Eye
2016
Rema Ghuloum
Los Angeles, California
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Rema Ghuloum
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2013
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2018
MFA Grant, 2010
My painting practice shows a system based on looking, walking, time, the function of memory, mimesis, and how these ideas relate to the tradition of painting. Walking in urban and natural environments becomes a vehicle for focus and observation. The everyday experience of noticing informs my process of making. I have created strategies for making paintings out of the act of recalling visual observations from everyday experience, from paintings and three-dimensional constructions that I have made, as well as from modern/contemporary paintings that I have seen. Time, color, and material constraints control this process, but arriving at a painting/construction is more important than the finished product. I make drawings, paintings, painted constructions, and installations that become the visual language that generates subsequent work.”
