Assorted Still Lifes
"Too much of contemporary art has been lost in ( amongst other things ) absurd philosophical debate or preachy, in your face political sermonizing. Both of which, with few exceptions, miss entirely the potential of art." Ed V
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Come on! What more do you want from a painting ?
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Still Life with Cartoon Rabbit and Orange Drip, 60x80 inches, 2016, oil, acrylic, enamel, spray paint, ink, gesso, mud with polymer medium and smoke stain on canvas.
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All total there are about twenty from this series.
A painting doesn't have to be an "important" painting in order to be a good painting.
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Still Life with Orange Drip and Painted Pumpkin, 60 x 96 inches, 2016, oil, acrylic, enamel, spray paint, ink, gesso, mud with polymer medium and smoke stain on canvas.
Still Life with Four Blue-Green Stripes, Two BB Holes and White Drips, 30 x 84 inches, oil, acrylic, enamel, spray paint, ink, marker, gesso, mud with polymer medium, smoke stains, wood glue, ball point pen and floor sweepings..
Once an image is added to a painting it becomes difficult to avoid a narrative. However, if you read the painting through the lens of process...things begin to change.
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Still Life with Ten Red-Purple Stripes, Painted Bite Size Spiced Donuts and a BB Hole, 30 x 84 inches, oil, acrylic, enamel, spray paint, ink, marker, gesso, mud with polymer medium, smoke stains, wood glue, ball point pen and floor sweepings..
The rip is simply another element in the still life, a sort of conceptual compositional element. It sends the painting into an objectness that I like. So it moves from being "just a painting" to now being... a painting with a rip in it. Hello objectness !
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Still Life with a Rip, Two Painted Donuts and Twenty Blue Stripes,30 x 84 inches, 2015.
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Still Life with Mud, Two BB Holes and Red Drips, 30 x 84 inches 2015.
A good painting can't be caught, nailed down and finalized. Once that happens...it's dead.
With my work there is no endgame but rather an elusiveness that keeps it alive and transmitting.
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Still Life with Four Blue Stripes and Floor Sweepings.
30 x 84 inches. 2015
Still Life with Painted Pear and Lower Case Letter O.
30 x 84 inches, 2015
Still Life with BB Holes, Painted Pear and Learn to Draw Rodent. 36 x 48 inches, 2015
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Still Life with Orange Stripe and Three BB Holes, 36 x 48 inches, 2015
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