Isabelle McCormick
Mirror, Mirror
September 24th - October 29th
In Mirror, Mirror, Isabelle McCormick employs traditional oil painting techniques and sculptural relief to render virtual space. At the intersection of technology and art history, she examines the relationship between self-surveillance and feminine archetypes that persist across the social media screenscape. Combining gold leaf, glitter, and Swarovski rhinestones with plaster casts and cake decorating techniques, she cultivates a tactile materiality that imitates self-branding. In a hyperbolic world of retouching apps and reality TV, McCormick explores the scopophilic pleasure in curating an online image and consequent chasm between the bodily self and social media façade.