Kara Joslyn
1 collaboration
Joslyn makes her own paint mixing optical-car-paint-pigments into acrylic base. She approaches paint as a type of metallic material, not an arrangement of colour. Her unconventional process lends each canvas a holographic feeling, suspending each figure in a middle ground which is not quite of this world, yet not purely an extension of individual imagination. Illusion is collapsed onto illusion, creating a dense field of sincerity and visual deception. All of her work is airbrushed on canvas using masking techniques that were originally invented to create graphic design and illustration before computers. Joslyn’s subjects are often portrayed against a black, boundless background. This creates multi-dimensional 3D illusions, harnessing a mystifying quality. Joslyn describes the light in her painting as “moonlight”. Bathed in this iridescent moonlight, her subjects are never what they seem.
