Artists who explore memory

Artist Amy Parrish uses modern and vintage photographs to explore the loss of her grandmother who was suffering from dementia in her series "Check the Mail for Her Letter."

Over the past few months I’ve come to the realization that much of the art I find myself drawn...

This impressive work is almost life size..it depicts the artist and her brother, as young children.....and it is entitled Memory...and it partly refers to the artist's mother, whose memory is failing..... It is composed of cheesecloth, and carefully segmented photographic enlargements, printed in varying degrees of density ...I was mightily impressed ! www.connectionsfibreartists.com

Figurative artist Leah Kelly works with oils, acrylics and charcoal to merge portraiture and surrealism. An unusual combination of faces and bodies in a representational art style is used to express emotions and experiences common within the female experiences. Women’s suffering, power, and emotions are expressed- translated through original ideas and compositions, or retellings of iconic imagery.

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Life is full of surprises, and some of the best come from the people we’ve known all our lives—the ones that we thought we had completely figured out. In

Life is full of surprises, and some of the best come from the people we’ve known all our lives—the ones that we thought we had completely figured out. In

Artist Jeremy Miranda Examines Memory with Landscapes that Bleed into Interiors http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/01/jeremy-miranda-memory/

Cesar Biojo can paint with a pristine, realist perfection, but he refuses to make his paintings that simple. His canvases are marked by physical, aggressive marks. One can imagine Biojo shading the faces and limbs of his subjects with delicate brushstrokes and then going back to destroy his work, smearing the beige-colored paint to turn the portrait into something more. His paintings often focus on single subjects stripped from their context — there is no clothing or interior decor to…

May 1, 2012 - "Porter Contemporary, NY, is pleased to announce Plaques & Tangles, the new paintings by Jeff Huntington, who explores the mysteries of perception and memory as well as the flexibility and fragility of the human mind. The title of the exhibition refers to the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that are believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, a disease with which Huntington is quite familiar. While watching his father struggle with Alzheimer’s…