Description
‘Wolves at the Door’ by Vanessa Powers
Artist: Vanessa Powers
Title: ‘Wolves at the Door’
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 6″ x 4″
Framing: Framed (frame size: 7.5″ x 5.5″)
Year of Creation: 2025
About the Artwork:
The reference image for this painting was taken from a screenshot of a viral video of a wildfire a few miles east of my home. The fire was large but ultimately contained with little damage to structures and was widely reported on international news.
While creating this painting I was thinking about the current political landscape in America and how we consume information. The nature of viral videos, the striking imagery of wildfires in residential areas, and the acceleration of climate catastrophes is framed through the perspective of observing these events unfold through the portal of our phones until they reach our door. – Vanessa Powers
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Vanessa Powers is a figurative oil painter informed by surrealism. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally with exhibitions at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, the juried exhibition Surreal Salon at Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana, WAR Gallery in London, and with Jonathan Levine Projects at Ki Smith Gallery in New York City amongst others.
In 2024 her work was permanently installed in large scale ad space in a Queens subway station (63rd Dr-Rego Park) with the art non-profit ChaShaMa as a part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Vacant Unit Activation Program. Vanessa was awarded the Caumsett Foundation Artist Residency at Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve in Lloyd Harbor, New York which took place in August and September 2024.
Previous projects include her work printed as a billboard in Brooklyn with the non-profit SaveArtSpace in 2019 and the inclusion of her mural in “Anthropocene” a curated mural cycle at First Street Green Art Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2018. Vanessa received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and is currently based in and from New York.