- Courtesy of the artist
- Portlandia 2, 2013, by Cait Willis.
Cait Willis makes paintings of glitches. The Seattle artist enshrines glitches because they symbolize live interruption in prerecorded activity. She wants to keep glitches “lodged” in our midst. So she gives them lodging in acrylic and resin on panel.
In an email I asked her whether she’s motivated by the same nostalgia that’s usually associated with glitch art. Yes. She’s nostalgic for “the lost era of non-HD television, the time before smartphones… the fact one would make plans in person: time, where, when. In a slow insidious creep, the way we live and date and work has transformed to something akin to shopping for a partner made by IKEA. The fact the glitch is ever so fleeting—a nanosecond of chaos stubbornly lodged in our type A, highly controlled world—gives me hope.”
A glitch in Portlandia, a glitch in The Shining.
- Courtesy of the artist
- Cait Willis, Last Ball (the Shining) (2013), detail, 12 by 24 inches, acrylic on panel
A show of Cait Willis’s new Glitch/White Noise paintings opens tomorrow at Ghost Gallery.
