"Luncheon in Fur/Diana After the Hunt (after Boucher)" Print - Limited Edition of 5

I appropriate art historical images together with those from film and popular culture and juxtapose psychedelic and floral patterns and mix them all together. Francois Boucher and Gerhard Richter, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Gene Davis, Bridget Riley, Nicholas Krushenick and Jean-Antoine Watteau - the rococo and abstraction, op art and pop art, anime and realism, and the psychedelic all come together, layered, or spliced. I appreciate the Rococo for its extravagance and theatricality, as it appeals to my love of kitsch. Paintings, prints and sculptures, collaged with cakes, printed skate decks and fake fur create an extravagant hodge-podge of seemingly disparate imagery and materials that evoke the psychosexual. Film imagery is another element important to my work. I grew up comforted by the classic Hollywood films and actors I reference in my work. As a gay adolescent, I escaped into film and identified with the women in what are considered “women’s films”. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, and femme fatales, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth… idealized and romanticized much like the goddesses in Rococo paintings. I love them all! I make these works to mirror the inundation of imagery we are bombarded with, creating a crazy quilt of pictorial eclecticism that obscures our ability to make sense of the image and acts as a metaphor for the confusion, shifting dichotomies, and absurdity I experience in our contemporary culture. Digital images speak to our technologically driven world and reflect the temporal paradox in pop culture whereby the past is brought forward to the present, the present to the past. The final images become a drag display.

Printmaking:Archival Inkjet print. on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5

Size:40 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.