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Look&Leave, Ruby Brooke
Look&Leave, Ruby Brooke
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Over the summer I had the opportunity to study in a program that focused on drawing and painting the architecture of Rome. Upon returning to the studio, I integrated this attention to architecture with my interest in painting the figure. Over the course of the year, the figure disappeared from my paintings. Instead, I started to paint large empty interiors. My intention was that the viewer feel the vastness of the space, emphasized by the absence of a figure.
This body of work explores interior architectural space and how the presence or absence of a figure affects it. I paint …