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Statement


Grace Weidner is a painter born in New York and raised in the Bay area of California. She is currently earning her BFA at Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is a psychological analysis of modes of social interaction present in her generation, and the isolation of growing up in a digital, post-covid world. Grace is interested in the semiotics of poetry, cinema, mythology and religion, through the analysis of the archetypal Jungian collective unconscious. Painting begins for her as a mode of understanding herself, and people around her, by utilizing metaphor to create distance, and adding meaning.

Art is the best place to be able to make assumptions about nothing

I want to make paintings about nothingness that turn themselves into somethingness by disparate claims of association.

We start living and learning to talk by making assumptions about a “something”, which through experience, trains us to make insights about nothing, which is overwhelming.

We make assumptions about the world through what is handed to us as “evidence”. The truth now is much harder to access, as life becomes progressively absurd and then truth becomes a vacuum. 

What I put on a canvas is apparent, and is able to exist on separate confusing planes (communicating with the multiple dimensions such as the internet which had become a dimension of reality) and then reunite them, all present on the same, tangible canvas.

What I choose to put down on a canvas is evident.

What I choose to put down on a canvas is loved.

But evidence of one thing could actually be evidence of something else. Religion and the news are a truth but I don't think they are the truth that they purport to be. 

Living in a timeless end of times, on the internet, I exist everywhere but in the past but the past exists within me.

I can be in mars and on spain at once. I am also controlled by being in those places, because although my mind can choose to exist there I am physically in my room.