Impassioned and awkward bodies caught mid-sex are lovingly and lusciously rendered in her paintings based on amateur porn videos.
[3] She captures afternoon sunlight reflecting off undulating waves in the Aegean Sea or the Savannah Sound through evocative marks in dry pastel.
While in school at San Francisco Art Institute, she began making drawings from slow-motion videos, life models, and photographs.
In 2014, that interest in photographic and pop-culture references extended to pornography, and inspired Wittenberg to begin painting from amateur porn.
[10] When discussing her observation-based work, Wittenberg says that “the biggest challenge is to trust what I see, even when it conflicts with what I think I see...Often, reality contrasts to how I think things should look.” This dedication to trusting her eyes—even when they tell her that the backlit spring leaves need an acidic yellow to bring out their natural vibrance,[11] or when a sunset calls for neon pink to brighten the layers of translucent oil paint[12]—reveals the extravagant beauty of the world.