THE DUALITY OF ANXIETY
Glitch art on canvas, 20 inches high by 20 inches long.
TRANQUILITY
Glitch art on canvas, 12 inches high by 14 inches long.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My name is Phillip McConnell, I am a 31-year-old artist from Trenton, New Jersey. The main concentration within my art focuses on abstract, surrealist digital artwork called Glitch Art. Glitch Art is the aesthetic of digital errors, created by corrupting the data of pictures. I use varying techniques and different coding languages. Within my work, I discuss my experience as well as my worldview.
To create my work, I convert picture files into text files using a basic program called Notepad ++. Using the text file within the program I manually manipulate the data of the picture by adding or subtracting color codes and by taking pieces of other pictures and blending them with each other. Once I have distorted an image enough, I combine them using the notepad program and export the text file as a JPG picture file and print it on galley-wrapped canvas.