Biography fiona rae

Over the last 25 years Fiona Rae has developed a distinctive body of work, full of restless energy, humour and complexity, which has set out to challenge and expand the modern conventions of painting. In the 1990s her early polyglottal inventions, arranged serially across the blank page of the canvas, gave way to dense paintings that depicted a world of interdependencies fractured by cubism, with all the hustle and energy of a metropolis.

Rae rapidly moved through the playbook of abstraction in the 1990s, devouring and re-presenting the tropes and fixations of modernism through the lens of movie and televisual culture, quick to grasp the rapid changes in contemporary visual culture, and insert her painting practice into the present.

In 2000 Rae’s paintings began to reference a world keyed to the computer screen, echoing in painterly analogues many of the new visual conventions familiar to a post-Photoshop generation.

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