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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 48 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Escarpia Laminata I have been conjuring faces for decades often telling stories originating in my life. And there I sat, in front of my easel, with a small white canvas and wanting to resist the easy way out. I set a palette with a variety of acrylic colors. Now what? Nothing. Notta. Damn it! I picked up a brush loaded with color. Made a quick stroke. And then another and another and… I hated it! I covered the entire canvas in a latex enamel flat white. The white did not completely cover the first layer and colors popped randomly through the white…I loved it! It reminded me of my grandmother making vegetable soup – never the same twice. Ingredients were leftover vegetables from the ice box, noodles, rice. And this little boy watched as colors and textures bubbled to the top. She would pour a little red wine into the soup just for color. And just before serving she would add a ladle full of sour cream. The vegetables transformed into a variety of colors. Sadie Popkins had a name for things she conjured. Mushkaboogie is probably a made up Russian vernacular word. For me, making this body of work is akin to making soup. It should have a little more or a little less of this or that to make it richer: more complex. It’s spontaneous. The whole color layer is painted over with white latex enamel. Once the layers are made there are hardly any adjustments possible. The process accentuates the taste. My dear friend, photographer, and painter Stephen Washington volunteered to help me photograph this collection. He kept asking me what I am going to call the work. Mushkaboogie did not sound right. Towards the end of the afternoon, Stephen handed me an index card with Escarpia Laminata written on it. WORMS! These worms live for upwards of 4,000 years in hollow tunnels found in Baja waters making them the oldest living organisms on the planet.
Original Created:
2018
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:
Acrylic on Canvas
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
48 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
SHIPPING AND RETURNS
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United States.
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Ian Summers
United States
Ian Summers’ Manifesto In the Manner of Claes Oldenburg *** I am for an art of memories that are chips and fragments, but not nostalgic. Life lived gathering experiences and images that are searching for meaning and connections. Faces conjured forming associations with people living and dead, with persons who may never have lived anywhere but in my mind. Conjured faces. I am for faces buried for over fifty years or more guessing how I knew them. Faces haunt me in my sleep and when I am awake. *** I am for seas of people on the streets of New York. I am for remembering everyone I have ever met. I am for the rags and bones of my childhood – encountering legends and myths from the moment I broke my first Crayola to my last drip of acrylic paint splashing and peeling it from my toenails. *** I am for not knowing where I am going until the painting wheezes and whines until I alter the course. *** I am for art on tar paper that bleeds and bubbles and smells and ghosts and is unpredictable as life itself. *** I am for projects that respond to life like when I spent three months – mesmerized in front of a television set watching the aftermath of 9/11. Faces flashed for nanoseconds. I tried to paint every one of them. Gestures. Expressions. Pundits. Soldiers. Politicians. First Responders. Anyone including actors making random appearances on disconnected television commercials. Working faster. Faster. At record speed. *** Over one thousand monotypes made from thousands of plates none bigger than an index card congregating making triptychs nine feet wide. *** Faces. More Faces. Conjured faces who do not make themselves known to me until they appear in a matter of moments on my iPad and painted with my fingers. *** I am for change ups. Moving from faces to what I see out my window and on the streets of Easton. Downtown. West Ward. Neighborhoods. The beat of the city. Is this new work a response or a reaction? *** (The portrait accompanying this profile is by Saatchi artist Will Harmuth.)
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