"Fearon has been painting in his studio for five years, a fact evidenced by the layers of multicolored splatter covering nearly every surface in the room. Central to his work is the theme of materiality-the manifestation of the power struggle between ourselves and the structures imposed upon us. Over the years, he has explored this tension across different mediums and within different spheres: technological, social and physical."
"His earlier work focused primarily on sculpture and installation, examining the intimate relationship between the body and technology through details such as the traces of fingerprints left on screens. When the pandemic began and he moved into his current studio, Fearon returned to painting through a series of portraits of friends. Though markedly different in form from his earlier sculptural and installation work, these paintings emerged from the same underlying concerns."
"The social restrictions of the pandemic and the distance they imposed between people became the conditions that produced the work itself: portraits painted in isolation as a response to the social order of the moment. When I asked him what a typical day in the studio looks like, he simply said: "I guess I come here and paint." As unassuming as that sentence is, it ca"
A studio in Greenhouse Berlin contains chipped concrete floors and walls, with greens and greys from the outside reflected in plants, pillows, and ceramics. Paintings are built from layers of multicolored splatter that cover nearly every surface. The work focuses on materiality, describing a power struggle between individuals and structures imposed on them. Earlier projects used sculpture and installation to examine how bodies relate to technology, including traces like fingerprints on screens. During the pandemic, the artist returned to painting through portraits of friends, created in isolation as a response to social restrictions and distance.
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