Danny Sobor’s meticulous and delicate paintings navigate the
unstable terrain of images in the digital age. Sourcing most of
his material from the internet, Sobor treats found images as
archaeological fragments severed from their origins. Stripped of
context, these images become open fields of possibility, calling
viewers not toward knowledge but towards imagination.
His canvases, rendered with meticulous attention, flatten
perspective and refuse hierarchy. Figures, patterns, and fragments
hover between intimacy and estrangement, simultaneously tender
and opaque. By translating ephemeral, digital traces into oil paint,
Sobor suspends fleeting moments in a state of permanence,
echoing Susan Sontag’s description of photography as “the
inventory of mortality.” ...
