Born in 1992 in Lincoln, USA
Lives and works in New Haven, USA
Phoebe Little was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and received a BFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her still life paintings examine contemporary constructions of identity through consumption and aestheticization of ideologies. She contemplates the relationships between objects, personal histories, and politics of production. The objects she paints are anthropomorphized, becoming actors in staged interactions. Her source material consists of photographs created through a combination of physically constructed still lifes and digital collage. These manipulated images defy the visual logic of consistent light sources and perspective, creating subtle surrealism. Her practice is in dialogue with the tradition of trompe l’oeil painting, and explores the paradox of the simultaneous legibility and deception of illusion.
