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Mainly using this to chost a #retrospective of my artwork from the last uh 3 decades. Occasionally new art and rechosts. Pretend I put some fun gifs here.
2007, oil on canvas, 42x23in.
So this is the first appearance of something new in my work: automatic imaginative painting. Basically not having an overall compositional plan but just doodling over a whole canvas. I went on to do a LOT more of this but on the first try I still wasn't sure what to do color wise which is why it's just primaries in glazes over monochrome.
Made in 2007 between schools as a kind of "portfolio piece" whose materiality (jute textured, stretched on oval) sort of shows how I didn't work in an Illustration paradigm. It's based on a Stanislaw Lem story in which a fairytale heroine discovers herself to be an automaton. I'm very drawn to those sorts of discoveries, how about you?
I got back into these after college when I had an internship at the Society of Illustrators. I guess right then I didn't date them, so I'm kind of just guessing that these were done then. They all take 20 minutes and are drawn with my finger on a laptop touchpad in photoshop using just airbrushes, and all the backgrounds are satellite telescope space photos. There are hundreds of them. I stopped going to that drink&draw because they told me I couldn't help with setup anymore after I missed one week. I was the only setup person that wasn't paid and the lead on it said he didn't like to watch women lift things.