Those are brilliant Brian, I'm totally envious. Ruffly how big are these? I would really like to look at them close up, you seem to have a lot going on....
I'm envious, too. This work looks particularly free to me, like you're just making and allowing the meaning to come in by itself. Is that what you're doing?
Also, your work looks to me like its developing some sort of open narrative. I'm getting that from the use of similar imagery (medical masks and wide open eyes) in different pieces.
the portraits are 24x36 the last image is larger maybe 40x80 they are all built from fragments from my life found or created images that i then draw or paint onto these are from a series of ten nurses I did I was exploring personas many of the woman in my family including my sister are nurses these became portraits of the women in my family and the masks took on a symbolism of their own. I also started a series based on protesters (wife and father) but, have changed my studio plan altogether and am now exploring the conceptof the yin and yang opposites and equal qualities which have the ability to transform each other this comes from my research this semester of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp My second mailing was based on the Bicycle Wheel by Duchamp and while sitting with the piece at MoMa I had the vision that the piece was a centaur four legs truncated body two pieces tranformed into a third when I was at home I brushed up on my mythology and discovered the centaur CHIRON he was different from the rest of the centaurs wise and knowledgable a healer and teacher of many of the greek heroes it is through this figure in greek mythology I plan to look at differences the centaur fo the Greeks was difference, animal/human, tame/wild, savage/civilized sensual/spiritual I have been making lists and thinking of images and drawing I am going to continue to use collage I feel this has become an important medium and process for making work.
me likey... what's up with the medical type masks, etc?
ReplyDeleteThose are brilliant Brian, I'm totally envious. Ruffly how big are these? I would really like to look at them close up, you seem to have a lot going on....
ReplyDeleteI'm envious, too. This work looks particularly free to me, like you're just making and allowing the meaning to come in by itself. Is that what you're doing?
ReplyDeleteAlso, your work looks to me like its developing some sort of open narrative. I'm getting that from the use of similar imagery (medical masks and wide open eyes) in different pieces.
the portraits are 24x36 the last image is larger maybe 40x80 they are all built from fragments from my life found or created images that i then draw or paint onto these are from a series of ten nurses I did I was exploring personas many of the woman in my family including my sister are nurses these became portraits of the women in my family and the masks took on a symbolism of their own. I also started a series based on protesters (wife and father) but, have changed my studio plan altogether and am now exploring the conceptof the yin and yang opposites and equal qualities which have the ability to transform each other this comes from my research this semester of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp My second mailing was based on the Bicycle Wheel by Duchamp and while sitting with the piece at MoMa I had the vision that the piece was a centaur four legs truncated body two pieces tranformed into a third when I was at home I brushed up on my mythology and discovered the centaur CHIRON he was different from the rest of the centaurs wise and knowledgable a healer and teacher of many of the greek heroes it is through this figure in greek mythology I plan to look at differences the centaur fo the Greeks was difference, animal/human, tame/wild, savage/civilized sensual/spiritual I have been making lists and thinking of images and drawing I am going to continue to use collage I feel this has become an important medium and process for making work.
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