Mirror X 4, 2001

mirror X 4

ink, paper, linen tape, 20" X 16 1/2"

drawn in MSPaintbrush, printed, and "lightly collaged." A dealer I showed this to thought the four sheets of paper taped together was too simple. The collaging is mostly in the computer here. The idea was to make something apparently balanced that on closer inspection was rife with small asymmetries. An artist I know who works with the computer a lot has noted that whenever you flip stuff you get sexual imagery.

Update: edited slightly.

grid painting, 1993

grid 1993

acrylic on paper, linen tape, 72 x 54 inches

in reproduction this looks like a tasteful Ellsworth K by way of Rothko theme. In reality it's much cruder: 36 sheets of 9 x 12 artist's sketch paper, each with a unique messy monochrome, taped together into a large quilt

painting, 1990

flaunting the code II - B and W

the original is 40 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas, and in color. it's meant to be a goof on expressionism, somewhat, and I think I like it better as a black and white book illustration.

Update: Need to add a few sentences to this post, as the image above is completely overwhelming the "camp child" below. In the past have described such writing as a "text buffer." Almost no thought is given on blogs as to how visual content interacts with nearby visual content. Museum curators go to great pains in the placement of art on walls, to the extent even of placing a weak piece next to a strong piece so as not to have the works "vibrating badly," as Walter Hopps once stated it. Yet on blogs the most outrageous juxtapositions are made. To some extent we rely on a kind of selective blindness, such as you see in newspapers when an image of a vivacious fashion model sits next to a story about people dying from living too near toxic waste. But it's also a lack of attention to design. Etc.