Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Megan Bierman-Brophy

14 I Don't Like Painting Anymore

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“This work is a “self-portrait” that pays homage to my inclination towards extremism - as well as the recurring theme of looking back on dark times with nostalgia – like “that was cool I want to go back”. During a particularly dark time in the fall, when I was also learning how to paint in oil, I would sit on the floor of my art studio and paint all day, drink beer and smoke cigarettes until I fell asleep in the paint covered clothes and on this little cushion/mattress. I felt like a person curled up in a fetal position in a snowstorm waiting for it to pass. Which is represented by the items in this frosted box. Lo and behold that dark time went away, and suddenly I look back at that time fondly. At the same time, the box is like a time capsule, but mostly I look at it as a cool sculpture. The title is “I don’t like painting anymore” because while I got good at painting in oil, after a few months of the routine explained above I thought I genuinely lost interest in painting. This is a recurring theme in myself – I do something to such an extreme that I “ruin it” and l just don’t want to do it anymore. ”