Rose Wylie : Lolita’s House

"In her ongoing Film Notes series, Wylie reduces films to a single image that has lodged within her memory. As with many of her paintings, she does not return to the original source material as a reference, but often filters the image from her recollections and impressions. She applies cinematic techniques to the structure of her paintings, where text takes the form of subtitles and compositions are formed by the frame of the camera.  . . . Her works are often made up of multiple panels installed in sequences, creating a kind of filmstrip of closely abutted canvases that can run the length of a gallery wall, wrap around corners and be stacked at height." —Melissa Blanchflower, "Quack Quack, Ack Ack," published in the catalogue accompanying the artist’s major exhibition Rose Wylie: Quack Quack at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, 2017.