I am a painter and MFA candidate at CUNY Lehman College ,while living on the Hudson River with my family. I enjoy exploring many different art mediums including oil painting, collage, acrylic painting, mixed media compositions, watercolor painting and charcoal drawing. I have been drawing and painting my whole life, and have also had a fashion design career as Hillary Anzis-Hostetler (my unmarried-married name).
MY WORK FOCUSES ON PORTRAYING LIGHT AND ATMOSPHERE IN THE CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE USING A VARIETY OF PAINTING MEDIA , SUCH AS OIL PAINT , WAX , ACRYLIC, AND OTHERS. I PAINT PERCEPTUAL IMAGES , WITH A MODERN TWIST. USING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES FOUND IN NEWS MEDIA , INTERNET IMAGES, AND MY OWN DIGITAL PHOTOS OF MUNDANE LIFE. I TRY TO EXPLORE AMERICAN LIFE. I PAINT IN A DIGITALLY INFLUENCED SFUMATO METHOD . MY DESIRE IS TO HIGHLIGHT AN IMAGE FROM THE FLOOD OF DIGITAL INFORMATION WE ARE INUNDATED WITH, AND PERHAPS HAVE BECOME NUMB TO, BY PAINTING IT. PAINTING CAUSES THE VIEWER TO SLOW DOWN AND CONSIDER WHAT THEY ARE SEEING IN A DIFFERENT WAY THAN A PHOTOGRAPH OR A VIDEO. I HOPE THE VIEWER WILL PAUSE TO CONSIDER WHAT THEY SEE. PAINTERS I ADMIRE INCLUDE GERHARDT RICHTER, LUC TUYMANS, WILHELM SASNAL, TIM EITEL, EBERHARD HAVEKOST, THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN TONALISTS , AND OTHER AMERICAN ARTISTS SUCH AS MILTON AVERY. MY CURRENT WORK EXPLORES THE INTERSECTION OF PAINTING , DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, MASS MEDIA, AND TECHNOLOGY .
