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Collage, Digital on Canvas
Size: 18 W x 24 H x 1 D in
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“Come and Get This Man”, 18 x 24 inches, mixed-media on canvas, 2015 Police! Police! Come and get this man! He’s trying to ruin the government And overturn the land! –Langston Hughes This piece was created for the Frontline Art Exhibit at City Bird Gallery. Friday, June 19, 2015 7-11pm City Bird Gallery, 191 Henry Street, NY, NY 10002 The theme of the collage is police brutality; the imagery suggesting that mechanisms of repression evolve out of fear of retaliation for past crimes.
Collage:Digital on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:18 W x 24 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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I make thoughtful mixed-media works that mediate friction between narrative and materiality. Novelistic pastiche and intuitive abstract painting confront each other in a bricolage of photographs, paint, and found objects. From a trace discovered in a few abject elements at the beginning of my process, I interweave strata, adding and subtracting components strategically or intuitively to create a quirky grammar of intellect and wonder. While my development has been steadily nourished by great mixed-media artists of the past, including Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg and the Kienholzes, I'm also inspired by contemporaries like Fred Tomaselli, Julian Schnabel and Barnaby Furnas. Due to a lifelong visual impairment, I have access to the Library of Congress audio collection; the books I listen to while painting frequently inform my work. I think of my pieces as contemporary equivalents to religious icons, memory gardens or totem poles; abstracted story-boards in which the gaze explores systems of interpretation and meaning in a shared situation with the artwork. My practice seizes the narrative debris of Spectacle - advertisements with their flattened affect, litter, hyper-real media images, plastic paint - and humanizes them in matrices of personal symbolism. I strive to push the narrative element as far as it can go in materiality and, beyond merely illustrating, signify stories infused with broad, universal themes and questions.
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