Title: Pressure
Year: 2008
Dimensions: 14 in. X 11 in.
Media: Acrylic on canvas.
Title: Song to the Siren (Marianas)
Year: 2006
Dimensions: 8 in. X 10 in.
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Title: Viscera/What I Have Written, I Have Written
Year: 2004
Dimensions: 14 in. X 11 in.
Media: Acrylic and thread on canvas.
Title: XI
Year: 2004
Dimensions: 31.5 in. X 30 in.
Media: Acrylic paint and thread on canvas.
Commentary: This piece has a lot of my history behind it. It started as a canvas I stretched for a painting class I took in college. The canvas was intended for a project that was barely started; only a preliminary sketch was ever done. I took it home with me at the end of the semester, intending to use it for another work at a later time. Another preliminary sketch was done on it and never completed. One night in a fit of rage I cut the canvas to ribbons with a box cutter. I didn't have the heart to throw it away, so I saved it. Some time later I moved into my grandmother's house and took the thing with me. I sewed it back together as neatly as I could and painted it with layers upon layers of gesso to cover the previously made pencil markings. I abandoned the canvas yet again until years later when I moved into a friend's. I recently completed it over the summer. I didn't add much to it; it needed to be cleaned to remove layers of dust and the stain of cigarette smoke. I added a simple coat of white and silver paint. I didn't want to detract from the simplicity of the stitching. In the end, I entitled it 'XI' because it took me eleven years to finally complete it.
Title: Abyss
Year: 2004
Dimensions: 32 in. X 40 in.
Media: Acrylic paint and staples on canvas.
* Was shown at the Salon De Independents,
Hygienic Arts, New London, CT
www.hygienic.org/
January 28 - February 11, 2006
4 comments:
Awesome collection Nebooshkin. I think 'Pressure' is my favourite, there is an understated ambience about it that stands out.
Thanks, Mr. Actually, 'Pressure' is one of the least favorite paintings I've ever done! Haha. I think it looks better on the computer screen than it does in person -- or maybe I am just being neurotic about it.
Ah! Well I like it, funny how that works. I do it too, often through over-familiarity with a piece, just get sick of looking at it, once it's done I prefer to forget about it and move on to something else, but that doesn't mean to say someone else won't appreciate it.
That's true, it's often difficult to look at one's own work objectively. I'm glad you like it, though; & you're not the first to comment on that piece, so I must have done something right!
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