A Brittle Covenant

About the artist

Inna Kimbrough

Inna's practice centers around the transfiguration of collective memory and individual experience to oil. Her observational work attempts to walk the tight-rope of faithfully looking at the world around her, and allowing the paint to take on a life of its own, a collection of substance greater than the sum of its parts. She has begun drawing on her experiences of working from observation to create paintings that not only explore personal memory and emotional landscape, but also explore a larger world outside of time which exists in the human cultural subconscious. She strives to create a mythology which is personal to her, but also taps into a rich lineage of archetypes and symbolic imagery that humans have used throughout recorded history. This synthetic branch of her work combines imagery from her sketchbooks, written journals, and research into the works of Jung and Eliade, as well as the human archaeological record which contains symbols and visual archetypes which repeat cross-culturally and cross-temporally.