D Hooker

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Artist’s Statement

I paint mixed media portraits of real and imagined people. While the commissioned portraits contain subtle personality cues culled from photo sessions and the gentle interrogations of my subjects, the fictitious portraits leave it completely up to the viewer to provide the character and narrative for the image. A portrait can express only what someone looks like at the time and moment of the sitting. The imagined person is a composite of many histories assembled to my liking. In the end, whether real and imagined, they become a synthesis of both the subject and the artist and an example of how history will be skewed by the historian.
 
My work combines digital rendering and traditional painting techniques. This system of borrowing, manipulating and distorting, using digital tools is then integrated with the mixed media world using everything from rust to smoke.