{"id":100012,"date":"2023-05-27T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=100012"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:00:09","slug":"painter-rebecca-ness-visual-diary","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2023\/painter-rebecca-ness-visual-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Visual Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin magazine-block-editorial-leadin is-style-emphasis-on-text has-media has-media-focus-center-middle has-primary-theme\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1943\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Re-emerging-scaled.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Re-emerging-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Re-emerging-636x483.jpg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Re-emerging-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Re-emerging-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Re-emerging-1536x1166.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Re-emerging-2048x1554.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Re-emerging-1318x1000.jpg 1318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\"><br><em>Heartbreak at Ginger\u2019s: Re-emerging<\/em> (2022) Oil on linen; 120 x 90 in. Photo by Philip Graysc, courtesy of the artist and Carl Kosty\u00e1l London | Stockholm<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">CFA Alumni<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCreating a Visual Diary\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">With a photographic eye, Rebecca Ness makes intimate, slice-of-life oil paintings of\u00a0everyday moments<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar magazine-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">May 27, 2023<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/bu-author\/sophie-yarin\/\">Sophie Yarin<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph magazine-block-editorial-introparagraph is-style-large has-paragraph-color-primary\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph-content\"><p>Rebecca Ness, a queer 30-year-old artist from Brooklyn, has no problem being compared to the 20th-century American painter Norman Rockwell.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am always confused when people ask what I feel about that,\u201d says Ness (\u201915). \u201cWhat\u2019s not to like? I love illustration. I love American art. I love Rockwell deep in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The associations with Rockwell abound for a reason: the scenes Ness paints seem as fleeting as those in candid photographs. Mundane moments\u2014an artist friend\u2019s face illuminated by a computer screen, a man looking up from his newspaper, a person holding a mug of coffee while flipping through a magazine\u2014are lavished with attention, humor, and vibrant colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay magazine-block-editorial-photoessay alignfull wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-tall-1-1\">\n<div class=\"photo-1\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Night-Out-at-Boobie-Trap-689x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Night-Out-at-Boobie-Trap-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Night-Out-at-Boobie-Trap-428x636.jpg 428w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Night-Out-at-Boobie-Trap-768x1142.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Night-Out-at-Boobie-Trap-1033x1536.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Night-Out-at-Boobie-Trap-1377x2048.jpg 1377w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Night-Out-at-Boobie-Trap-673x1000.jpg 673w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Night-Out-at-Boobie-Trap-scaled.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"photo-1\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"899\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Heading-Out-899x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Heading-Out-899x1024.jpg 899w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Heading-Out-559x636.jpg 559w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Heading-Out-768x874.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Heading-Out-1349x1536.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Heading-Out-1799x2048.jpg 1799w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-HAG-Heading-Out-878x1000.jpg 878w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-normal-font-size has-primary-background-color\">Left: <em>Night out at Boobie Trap<\/em> (2022) Oil on linen; 90 x 60 in. Photo by Lance Brewer, courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-normal-font-size has-primary-background-color\">Right: <em>Heartbreak at Ginger\u2019s: Heading Out <\/em>(2022) Oil on linen; 90 x 80 in. Photo by Philip Graysc, courtesy of the artist and Carl Kosty\u00e1l London | Stockholm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccalness.com\/\">vivid-hued world Ness depicts<\/a> in her paintings is hyperpersonal\u2014bars populated with friends and acquaintances; a desk piled with loose papers, cups of coffee, and <em>New Yorker<\/em> magazines; a floor cluttered with squished tubes of paint and discarded bras. The energy in her compositions is palpable. Even inanimate objects refuse to lie still\u2014pages curl, steam rises from coffee mugs. Her portrait subjects, many depicted from the neck down, fiddle with gloves and pencils, pointing their fingers and cracking their knuckles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think I have a bit of a <em>horror vacui<\/em> with my work,\u201d she admits, using the Latin term for an aversion to empty spaces. \u201cI\u2019m always packing in information.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, Ness\u2019 works are a visual diary. The viewer follows her into subway cars, to friends\u2019 studios, on camping trips and long nights out, seeing things the way she sees them, in ways that evoke exuberance, nostalgia, humor, and affection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-cyan-color has-text-color\"><strong>\u201cA VERY SOCIAL WAY TO PAINT\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ness began figure drawing and oil painting as an after-school student at the Acorn Gallery School of Art in Marblehead, Mass. Classes for youngsters at Acorn, Ness recalls, placed a special emphasis on learning the human form. \u201cI learned very early on that there could be so much that you could say with a finger flick or a reflection in an eyeball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Painting people allows Ness to be a storyteller. In her crowd scenes\u2014many of which were inspired by nights out at her favorite bar in Brooklyn, Ginger\u2019s\u2014patrons clamor for the viewer\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe stories I tell are not always a piece-by-piece documentary of what really happened, but based on a spark of reality,\u201d Ness says. \u201cMaybe I included a story that my friend experienced with someone, but I don\u2019t know what the other person looked like, so I invented them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Ness\u2019 <em>Heartbreak at Ginger\u2019s<\/em> series, which she says was inspired by \u201can experience of unrequited lust,\u201d the bar patrons scroll through iPhones, light cigarettes, wave to each other, and sip drinks. They wear their hearts on their sleeves, telepathizing their frustration, joy, and apprehension. Ness can usually be found in the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn those Ginger\u2019s crowd paintings, there are probably 10 to 20 people that I just painted over, because I thought that they had a story but realized later, \u2018Nah, this conversation is boring,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a very social way to paint, if you think about it. I have to spend time with these characters and see if I have any chemistry with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay magazine-block-editorial-photoessay wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-full-f\">\n<div class=\"photo-f\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"847\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Brainstorming-1-1024x847.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Brainstorming-1-1024x847.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Brainstorming-1-636x526.jpg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Brainstorming-1-768x635.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Brainstorming-1-1209x1000.jpg 1209w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-Brainstorming-1.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-normal-font-size has-primary-background-color\"><em>Brainstorming<\/em> (2019) Oil on canvas; 60 x 70 in. Photo by Jackie Furtado, courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-cyan-color has-text-color\"><strong>\u201cWE ARE WHAT WE KEEP\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all of Ness\u2019 paintings use human figures to tell stories. Much of her catalog could be classified as still life, and her inclusion of paintbrushes, newspapers, Dunkin\u2019 cups, and other signs of life lend a human element to the space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are what we keep, what we collect,\u201d she says. \u201cIf I were to go to your house and look at your objects, I would probably have a really good idea of who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ness is particularly fascinated with her own workspaces; they give her the opportunity to take snapshots of something messy and unfinished and include the tools involved in creating these works. In <em>I See You<\/em>, a riff on a self-portrait, Ness sits at a table in the bottom left corner, taking up about an eighth of the canvas. The majority of the work is devoted to her studio space\u2014a tangle of extension cords snaking around art supplies, rough drafts, color test pages, canvases, art books, notepads, and a pair of orange Nikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think portraiture through objects is an interesting proposition,\u201d Ness says. \u201cMy idea of a still life or a portrait is, \u2018What\u2019s on the floor?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay magazine-block-editorial-photoessay alignfull wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-full-f\">\n<div class=\"photo-f\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-My-Life-1024x655.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-My-Life-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-My-Life-636x407.jpg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-My-Life-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-My-Life-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-My-Life-1563x1000.jpg 1563w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2023\/05\/Ness-My-Life.jpg 1727w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-normal-font-size has-primary-background-color\"><em>My Life <\/em>(2020) Oil on linen; 65 x 104 in.  Photo by Prudence Cumming, courtesy of the artist and Carl Kosty\u00e1l London | Stockholm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-cyan-color has-text-color\"><strong>CRAFTING A SCENE<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI prefer to work from life, but I can\u2019t really paint at a bar,\u201d Ness jokes. In order to create a moment so personal it feels like a memory, she renders multiple photographs into a reference collage on her iPad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI find that it\u2019s very streamlined to make the study on the iPad, and then do the drawing and invention on the canvas,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t like to have everything planned out before, because then the painting isn\u2019t fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of her process is devoted to reexamining ordinary moments for new details. Works like <em>Convening at the Table<\/em>, <em>Origins<\/em>, <em>Brainstorming<\/em>, and <em>Drawing Party<\/em> represent a period of fascination with figures sitting at a table covered in newspapers, notepads, and art supplies. She painted each work from a different angle and made minor variations to the items on display. In earlier series, she depicted close-ups of friends reading books and newspapers or hands holding pencils and eyeglasses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ness\u2019 subjects live in a Technicolor Brooklyn, where everyone is an artist and nobody keeps their room tidy. The more detail she includes\u2014she uses oil-primed linen for its ability to capture fine detail \u201calmost like paper\u201d\u2014the more her world comes into relief.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to reward close looking,\u201d she says. \u201cI find that when you look closely at paintings, you look closely in other parts of life.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether painting crowd scenes to tell a story or details to inspire a closer look, Ness is getting attention. She has been exhibiting since earning an MFA from Yale in 2019, landing coveted spots in prestigious art fairs including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbasel.com\/miami-beach\">Art Basel Miami Beach<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artcologne.com\/\">Art Cologne<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frieze.com\/fairs\/frieze-los-angeles\">Frieze Los Angeles<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, she\u2019s interested in experimenting with new subjects. In 2021, after a camping trip, she shifted briefly toward nature painting, filling her canvases with flower stalks and twisted tree bark in the same carefree disarray as the paintbrushes on a studio floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was really hard, and I did it because I felt that I was getting stuck in one language: and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s how you grow as an artist,\u201d Ness says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s helpful, she says, for her to look at each work as a short story. Since the misadventure at Ginger\u2019s, Ness has been on a bar kick, and lately the short stories she\u2019s committed to canvas have been about nights out at establishments like Boobie Trap in Bushwick and the East Village\u2019s Lucien.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What comes after that all depends on what she gets up to next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end-of-article\">\u201cThe one thing that held Rockwell back was that he had to create this short communication for what was largely just white America,\u201d she says. \u201cI really differ in how much grace and freedom I have now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories is-style-card has-three magazine-block-editorial-relatedstories\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-title\">Related<\/h3>\n\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-category\"><span>Visual Arts<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2022\/mathew-cerletty-making-art-out-of-the-mundane\/\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title-link\">Making Art Out of the Mundane<\/a><\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-date\">December 3, 2022<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am always confused when people ask what I feel about that,\u201d says Ness (\u201915). \u201cWhat\u2019s not to like? I love illustration. I love American art. I love Rockwell deep in my heart.\u201d The associations with Rockwell abound for a reason: the scenes Ness paints seem as fleeting as those in candid photographs. 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