By Georgia Hinaris
Located in Chicago, IL
In Shivers, a disease is spread through the throat, resulting in a zombie-like infection. In this painting, coupled with an image from The Eyes of Laura Mars, is a reference to ideological possession and the use of compelled speech. It is a concern towards those who display totalitarian traits in their quest for justice, too caught up in their own righteousness to really consider the damage they are doing. The do in the background stands above the lifeless body of a woman, it is dogma and its dismantlement of womanhood.
Inspired by the films
Shivers, 1975
The Eyes of Laura Mars, 1978
Georgia Hinaris
Eyes of Shivers
oil on panel
16h x 24w in
40.64h x 60.96w cm
GHS003
Horror films are the most profound and visceral of films, garnering the most extreme responses: vehement hatred and cultish admiration. Horror elicits a controlled neurosis while exposing the rejected weaknesses and brutalities of humanity. I embrace the power of cinema and its ability to alter perception, as it is media that is a reflection of our primordial desires. I’m fascinated by concepts involving the limits of human perception, the ambiguity of morality in relation to nature, the paradoxical nature of reality, and the human struggle to reckon with uncertainty. Humans bear the burden of being as we are, all caught in a flux of unbelievable cognitive abilities and animalistic instincts. Every painting is in its own universe and I cater to it. Nothing is precious. Chaos is embraced.
Georgia Hinaris, b. 1993, Chicago, Illinois
Education
2019 MFA Painting, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2015 BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibitions
2020 Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Di Donna Gallery, New York, NY
AXA Art Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA,
Richard Gray...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metra Mitchell Figurative Paintings