Jennifer Guidi turns out to be presciently suited for this isolated, introspective time
on TikTok. Guidi was presciently early to Instagram, back when she faced a different kind of isolation. “I wasn’t showing, and I had very young kids. I was kind of stuck at home with no outlet,” she recalled. Posting videos of her painting techniques—sometimes brushstrokes, other times thumbprint-size impressions into a bed of sand—opened a channel to the outside world. “It’s become this huge tool for collectors,” she explained. “Now, you have this window into people’s lives or practice.
It’s also, in Guidi’s case, a guide to weathering quarantine in good health. The other week, the artist posted a panorama of her virtuous smoothie ingredients: hemp seeds, collagen peptides, açai powder, bee pollen, cacao nibs, reishi mushrooms—along with almond milk, dragon fruit, banana, and “a lot of greens—basically a full salad,” the artist told me.
In “Gemini,” those metaphysical leanings emerge in a series of nearly all-black paintings, correlated to the chakras. Upon close inspection, each bears hints of color, applied to the almondine divots like French-manicure tips. Guidi remembers a time when fellow artists cautioned her against revealing such impulses in her work. “It was like, ‘Don’t talk about spirituality, don’t talk about anything that seems New Age-y,’” she said.
The commonsense cure for seasickness is to train your eyes on the horizon, the one fixed point in the roiling current. In “Gemini,” that moment arrives with a colossal painting of a sunset, stretching nearly 20 feet wide. Three social-distance units, I think. The sky is a dappled expanse of Guidi’s dash-like strokes, undulating in flamingo pinks and bright tangerines; below it, the water line is straight and true.
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