Lost in the woods
Kirstin Lamb on painting "Side of the Trail in Rhode Island"
Kirstin Lamb’s paintings need to be seen in person, not on a computer. They play with how a computer makes an image, and on a screen, they might be mistaken for a pixelated. They’re also firmly based in domestic crafts and Photorealism. And ultimately, they’re paintings, celebrating the obsessive mark making of a human – highly skilled and attentive, yet unpredictable. She has a show coming to Gallery NAGA in September.
Kirstin began breaking familiar images into discrete marks when she was at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts for a post-baccalaureate degree. She made a splashy, abstract version of Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. But her current process comes from her discovery of cross stitch patterns online: itty bitty grids with each cell coded indicating which color thread to use.
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