Caroline Coolidge

I have been working to unravel the screen printing process, to blur the distinction between serigraphy and painting, production and memory. The mesh printing screen is my mediator. I experience painting through it and work to break down the function inherent within the material. The phone screen is also a mediator, one which rapidly produces images, memories, and content. Within my work, these screens are stand-ins for one another, sites to reflect on their multiplicities. Working against the printing screen, I generate images that cannot become multiple. Instead, I create a memory of the previous image that remains fixed on the mesh as my work shifts from print to painting. In this act of disruption, I am visually witnessing the reproducible image breakdown through the screen and am considering how images are created and mass-produced. Through dismantling the multiple, I counter mechanisation and investigate how mass production and technology have come to shape and build meaning. My process and the resulting paintings, drawings, and sculptures are meditations around reality shifting within screen-generated space. As I play with the truth of the process of forming new material fictions, I contemplate how screens dominate contemporary life, constantly creating new images and realities to shape the past and present and redefine it.

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