Daly City #58 Painting

Spectacle & Sprawl is a series about the cultural design of planned communities. “The Little Houses on the Hillside” are located outside of San Francisco in Daly City. One of the first planned communities to specifically house workers and returning GI’s, the Westlake area featuring architect Doelger’s 1948’s “House of the Moment” was a zeitgeist moment for the American Dream and midcentury modern architecture. NOE painted 100 small 10x10’ paintings on wood panels with an image transfer of Doelger’s house. The conformity of the reproductive image of the house with the differing painting treatments expresses the tension of America’s sprawling efficiency and need for individualism and the artist’s push and pulling of abstraction and representation. The skyscraper, 56 Leonard St, is in Tribeca, NYC. Its cantilevering architecture has given it the nickname the Jenga Building. Here penthouses are investments to bank personal wealth. These glass castles are design-forward and promise community exclusivity. While a beautiful vertical slit in the sky, they are a symptom of the widening wealth gap on the ground. Pulling these two planned communities together tells many stories of American Identity. *Spectacle & Sprawl is a spin-off of American Bones, the artist’s multimedia project exploring cultural narratives that form the bone structure of America’s identity.

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:10 W x 10 H x 1 D in

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