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Notes
1-2: Two handmade monstors.
3-4: Two little media
monstors of my own.
5-7: Local artists Marisa
Hernandez, Barry McGee, and Scott Hewicker
8-10: Three takes on
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Author's
Statement
About ten years ago I tried to stop
composing my paintings, leaving out all background elements, and using an
exposed paper ground. These images attempted to address ideas about specific
public figures -- rock stars, actors in character, missing kids off milk cartons,
as well as the occasional genres: horror, comedy, romance. They're grafted
together from various scavenged sources, and act as kind of twisted makeovers.
Both formally and in content and affect they refer to personality posters,
pinup pages, and fashion stills, among other things.
"I'd
be in bad shape if I expected to find happiness on a white seamless..."
-
Cindy Crawford
Recently, however, I've also begun
painting local acquaintances, mostly over working artists. I was interested
in using people I knew, but (usually) not very well. As I became able to take
my own source photos, which offer a broader range of detail and visual information,
those pieces have expanded to life size, sometimes larger.
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