2009, oil on canvas, 30x60"
A very serious final semester of grad school painting class pose about sexual mores or something, viewed in such a way as to suggest big lady wood with a hat.
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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.
Late 2007 I think? This pose and costuming was chosen by the instructor, who I think may have been awful in a lot of ways and a few people came after him years later for the racism and misogyny in how he taught, to no avail. So I took that as a sort of, ironic neo-primitivist post-collapse narrative, titled after a Tori Amos b-side that had been getting some great live renditions that year, with a building behind them that was a few blocks from school that fascinated me because it had no windows. At the time I, like this imagined couple in the ruins, didn't know why, and even confused it with the nearby federal prison, but it's the AT&T Long Lines Building / now-datacenter. So this image revolves around this idea of obscured and tragically lost history whose physical presence still looms large (plus technology level contrast).
2007, oil on transparent plastic on mirrored plastic, 8x7in.
Iirc this was inspired by a passage about what I can best describe as Inanimate Sensations in a Joanna Russ novel.
2007 - oil on canvas, 18in round.
These kinds of paintings were born of the availability of models as a session monitor, and the unavailability of canvas money or storage space.