Quincy Kmetz’s Hyperreality series (2020-2021) is a take on traditional narrative paintings and consists of five painted “pages” coming together to form an immersive visual comic book. Presented here as digital images, the punchy and elucidatory titles coupled with the loose yet sure brush strokes caged by frames illustrate each page’s scene with a sense of irony and contemplation. By provoking inquiry between the immediate, the unforeseen, and the consequences of each, Kmetz exposes the glib lack of regulation behind modern data technology.
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(from left to right) Going the Way of the Passenger; In the Beginning; New Currency New Power; To serve Man; Weaponized Confusion
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Digital America interviewed Quincy Kmetz in April of 2024.
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Quincy Kmetz is an emerging artist working out of Jersey City, New Jersey, whose paintings, drawings, printmaking, and ceramic sculpture dive into transhistorical issues involving information, technology, and power structure. Kmetz graduated with a BFA in painting from the Pratt Institute, and her work belongs to private collections in New York City, Los Angeles, and Moscow.
