Josie McCoy

 

 

 

About Seduced

 

 

           title : Leeloo

       format : installation

     medium : painting

 

 

 

 

For ‘Seduced’ at the Windows Gallery I will show two enormous paintings of ‘Leeloo’ (Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element).

 

 

 

 

About The Artist

 

 

I paint portraits of television and film characters.

 

For me there is an interesting parallel between the version of reality created by a painting and the portrayal of a character in a film or television series. Both suggest that mimicry can seem more real than that which it seeks to imitate.

 

Using oil paint like watercolour, I paint using very thin layers which gives luminosity to the surface, to emulate a television screen. The green hue I use for the skin of my subjects references traditional techniques of painting, where green was used as under-painting to make the subsequent layers glow.