Performed Identities
Across portraiture and landscape-based painting, my practice approaches figuration as a conceptual framework for examining identity, perception, and lived experience over time. In the portrait-based works (Conceptual Portraiture / Performed Identity), the figure functions as a site of mediation and repetition, where selfhood is understood as performed, provisional, and shaped by social and technological contexts. In the landscape and spatial paintings (Conceptual Figuration / Concept-Scapes), that same inquiry is extended into constructed environments, allowing space itself to stand in for the body as a psychological and narrative structure. Together, these bodies of work treat representation as intentionally unstable, using painting to explore how identity and meaning are continually formed through the shifting relationship between self, space, and time.
Portrait of PE PinkmanĀ
