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I Made Hauntingly Colorful Paintings Of My Dead Ancestors
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I Made Hauntingly Colorful Paintings Of My Dead Ancestors

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I painted these life-sized oil paintings from photos my family inherited. Growing up in a house cluttered with my mother’s genealogy research and old photographs spilling from every corner, I had a primal fear of anything Victorian. When I was 20, I had a dream in which an ancestor that died in childhood urged me to color her photograph. I’ve been coloring ever since.

This is a series I began over a decade ago and continue today with evolved technique and subject. Several of these oil paintings on canvas are on display for the month of October 2016 and available at Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago.

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    Matt Kane

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    Artist & Programmer. Generative Art. Creative Code. Data Paintings. New Media Art. Infinite Color Theory.

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    Matt Kane

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    Artist & Programmer. Generative Art. Creative Code. Data Paintings. New Media Art. Infinite Color Theory.

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