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Oil Painting - Outlaw Series
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Created: 03/19/09
Last Edited: 04/01/09
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Fields: Fine Arts
Key to the meaning of these pieces is the allusion to graffiti. Graffiti is an urban phenomenon. As one can see from my other work, interrogating what the city is, what it means and how we relate to it are central to my work. Not wanting to recreate the subject-matter of the drawings and photographs explicitly, I have rather used graffiti, a tool that many claim destroys the beauty of something, to bring the outside (the street, the urban sprawl, the decay of culture) inside a gallery (a house of the sublime) and onto my paintings.
The next key elements are the figures. I call them the ‘every-face’. They are everyone and no one. Most often applied without a mouth, they are sometimes powerless or emotionless. I love the expressionless face they have - taking meaning and emotion from the surroundings, the viewer and also the name of the piece.
They do not fit the mould and so, in a sense, these paintings are outlaws.
The next key elements are the figures. I call them the ‘every-face’. They are everyone and no one. Most often applied without a mouth, they are sometimes powerless or emotionless. I love the expressionless face they have - taking meaning and emotion from the surroundings, the viewer and also the name of the piece.
They do not fit the mould and so, in a sense, these paintings are outlaws.
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