Simone Blain

Simone Blain’s paintings focus on the vernacular, mundane world of human relationships, using a tongue-in-cheek childlike approach with a direct and pared down drawing style, rendered in paint. Her work uses humor as a mechanism to speak about sentimentality, heartbreak and romance. Inspired by the quotidian, Blain gathers source material in such a way that echoes her hyperactive tendency to record her surroundings visually. Many of the formal considerations in Blain’s recent paintings are drawn from traditional textiles and craft, or photographs that she collects daily on her cellphone. Frequently employing devices such as repetition of form and texture, color and composition, her paintings strive for sense of rhythm.

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