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Deborah Hamon
Bay-area artist Deborah Hamon works in painting and photography as discrete mediums, but in her "Girls: Fact and Fiction" series she cleverly combines elements of both media. Using photoshop, she lifts figures from her paintings and relocates them in photographic landscapes. Hamon is interested in confounding viewers' expectations of the nature of images and challenging their immediate perception of reality. Her images explore identity formation in adolescent girls, the gray areas between innocence and knowledge, self-confidence and self-consciousness, light-heartedness and seriousness. The works function as a reflection on her past and a prediction of her daughter's future transition to young adulthood.
Artwork
Bay-area artist Deborah Hamon works in painting and photography as discrete mediums, but in her "Girls: Fact and Fiction" series she cleverly combines elements of both media. Using photoshop, she lifts figures from her paintings and relocates them in photographic landscapes. Hamon is interested in confounding viewers' expectations of the nature of images and challenging their immediate perception of reality. Her images explore identity formation in adolescent girls, the gray areas between innocence and knowledge, self-confidence and self-consciousness, light-heartedness and seriousness. The works function as a reflection on her past and a prediction of her daughter's future transition to young adulthood.
American Girl
Snowbound
The Game
Wonderland