Up To My Eyeballs
(2004),
Ty Stokes Gallery,
Atlanta, GA
Sirlin is known for work that addresses the traditions of painting through innovative uses of digital technology. Sirlin continually explores new means of translating the values of abstract painting into forms that extend the painted surface into space.
Her work is a meditation on painting that reflects her love of bold circular forms, saturated color, and the texture of brush strokes.
The title Up to My Eyeballs refers both to Sirlin's positive sense of inhabiting an environment saturated with exciting visual information and the combination
of perceptual and conceptual means she uses to negotiate that environment. Up to My Eyeballs is also a singularly appropriate title for Sirlin's newest
series of works, produced by digitally sampling passages from one of her paintings and producing them as transparent C-prints adhered to Plexiglas circles.
These circular works directly evoke the body: they not only suggest eyeballs but are scaled to the human torso. Suspended and lit from behind, they produce two
images: the luminescent circles themselves and projections on the gallery walls.
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