Brand New Paint Job (Emily Carr Master Bedroom)

Montreal-based artist Jon Rafman produced a suite of unique artworks for the exhibition, Brand New Aura. Rafman appropriated images from the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Google Art Project collection. In Brand New Paint Job (Emily Carr Master Bedroom), Rafman has meticulously combined two Emily Carr paintings. Kispiax Village, 1929, and Indian Church, 1929, are used as textures and then applied to a 3D model taken from Google 3D Warehouse. The juxtaposition results in an overwhelming interior of Canadian landscape. Jon Rafman’s website-specific artworks activate the Google Art Project, which until now displayed only digital reproductions of material art.