"Insularity," a exhibition of the recent works of CSUS student Doug Loree at the Witt Gallery. The context of the pieces revolves on how current society has become so obsessed with technology, cell phones in particular, and social media that they lose grasp on reality. Many of the pieces displayed shows a "creature" so obsessed in it's phone that it's environment and self-being has begun to be sucked into the reliance/addition to technology. Loree also displays strong blue hues to further emphasize the power of technology because the blue represents the light emitted from electronic screens. Another emphasis the artist makes present is the symbolism of the vortext/spiral effect present in each painting to represent how reality is being sucked into the technological world.
I am personally interested in Loree's experimentation to his newer pieces which gives the viewer a completely different perspective of the cell phone. Instead of having the viewer see the paintings as an outsider and witnessing the "creature" being sucked into the cell phone, we now become the creature and experience what the "creature" is experiencing.
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