Philadelphia artist Mary Henderson specializes in a series of paintings from the girls. Henderson received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Amherst College and an MFA in Painting at the University of Pennsylvania. Henderson largely devalues girls’ interest eras, and Henderson has recently taken the spotlight around the cultural significance of Girls’ Generation. For Henderson, this transformation is both important and fragile. Nevertheless, her paintings completely embrace the particularity of an era composed of overnight, ballet rides, friendship bracelets and carefully choreographed dance routines.
In this way, the series also involves maternity and Henderson’s own sense of “time travel” in front of his teen collaborator (her daughter and daughter’s friend). Henderson describes: “I observe them in the rearview mirror, or in the stands. Henderson purchases images from archives of personal iPhone snapshots and is interested in the ability to represent paintings to draw attention to information that might be casual or peripheral visual:
Because my work tends to focus in the low resolution angles of larger reference photos in the form of ephemeral and fragmentary, I usually work. The resulting painting process has high interpolation and involves supplementing my original material with rich visual research as well as direct direct observation. The highly saturated space and triggers the interaction and moves a feeling towards the interaction.
