In her News Feed series of narrative paintings, Jennifer Niswonger’s work investigates the performative nature of digital media. Responding to the fervid cycle of the news, Niswonger seeks to make visible the click-bait language and flashy information that is designed more to keep audiences engaged than to facilitate information. Niswonger sets up her paintings as a stage, complete with backdrops, actors, costume, and dramatic lighting. Hints of various real-life news stories show up as props or positions in her pieces (i.e. a 2017 story about cows eating Skittles). Through her vivid use of color, custom-built canvases, and precise painting techniques, Niswonger plays up the drama and spectacle of the news cycle. By doing so, she also calls out the humor and hypocrisy of performatively re-posting digital content.