Hillary Babick

Lives and works in Boston, MA, USA

Artist statement

I am interested in how we behave when no one is watching and when we know someone is watching. The tension between private life and curated public persona is fascinating. What is ritual? What is performance? How are we subsumed and consumed by our digital experiences? Taking inspiration from portraiture, genre painting, and social media, I explore mundane moments that deserve closer consideration. By elevating an image intended to be viewed on a cell phone and digested quickly through oil painting, I press pause on rapid media consumption to examine motivations and beauty in the everyday.

Artwork