Computer Animation Arts

Jennifer Cronin is a new discovery for me, but her paintings captured my attention immediately - and little wonder, for they vibrate with that unhomely energy that so appeals to me. Here again, an artist uses suburbia and the domestic sphere as a site of unease and invasion. I don't know what those floating apparitions exactly are in Cronin's work, but I've seen enough J-Horror to be wary... "There is always something that cannot be seen. A before and after. Something just outside, on the fringe, or even teeming just beneath the surface. Building upon the ubiquitous but often concealed psychological underpinnings inherent to suburban life, my paintings create an absurd mythology of the seemingly banal. I am certainly not alone in my upbringing as a female growing up in the suburbs, yet that aspect of my identity has remained one of the most salient and inescapable to me throughout my life. My earlier paintings vibrate with a dark anxiety with women looking for...