Belair Print

The subject: A 1957 Chevrolet Belair Sport Coupe, one of the more iconic coupes of the era sporting Jet Age inspired tail-fins. The automotive designs emerging from Detroit during the post-war period coincided with an era of optimism and economic prosperity for middle class Americans and the nostalgia for that time period persists for many to this present day, embodied in the surviving artifacts of those bygone days. The series: An approach to landscape painting in the context of our relationship with the surrounding environment, mediated by technologies that shape our perception of it. The automobile becomes the prism through which we experience much of our immediate environs of the car centric culture here in California. Reflections of an urban landscape on the quintessential American artifact conveys the idea of image within image, of the profound residing within the seductive artificiality of chrome and lacquer. The painting explores the nature of seeing, of how our fetishized technologies seduce vision and contributes to cultural blindness and dislocation, as expressed by the abstract space that the car resides in, an indeterminate plane.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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