Chasing Likes by Sharon Shapiro

Sharon Shapiro

Chasing Likes, 2022

oil and airbrush on linen

30 x 24 x 1.5 in (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)

This was the last painting I finished in 2022. I had my model pose in my yard in the late autumn afternoon with a railing that was from my father's women's clothing store that he owned and operated when I was a child. The fence is an important symbol in this painting, standing for something that was lost (these were left in the building when he moved to a different location in 1981) and then found (I recovered them forty years later, in 2021, when I learned the building was going to be demolished). The model chose her outfit, but the jeans also became a reflective element; my father had a vast inventory of designer jeans in the 70s and 80s. As a young girl, I would daydream about being old enough to wear them and inhabit what I perceived as an adult woman's body and world. Finally, the title references social media, the flood of dopamine that occurs in the brain when we receive likes and followers, and this phenomenon's effect on our collective psyche.

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