Eight hours to get everything up. I was running out of wall space. Have to go back in the morning to finish putting the labels up, matching them to the art. I lost count, but close to 80 pieces of art in this one room. Not counting the street sketches. Here’s photos of this effort in progress.
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Preparing for the A-Space show–giving a lot of thought to how I want to organize it. My work tends to migrate toward these broad, thematic areas–I hope to make this clear in my arrangements. I want to help people see what I’m doing, without overcoded interpretations.
ASSEMBLAGES
Arrangements of Found Things, street trash, dirt, broken glass—the detritus of Late Capitalism—discarded identities in search of new relationships.
FAERIE TREES
Human Arboreal Intercourse
I must have deleted photos of these. I painted them on weathered plywood salvaged from repairs on the neighbor’s porch roof. #376, 377, 378, 379, 380
#376 66″ x 25″ Acrylic on plywood
#377 64″ x 26″ Acrylic on Plywood
#378 29″ x 48″ Acrylic on Plywood
#379 66″ x 22″ Acrylic on plywood, with canvas strips and leaves
#380 72″ x 28″ Acrylic, Oil crayon on Plywood and cardboard. “No gods No leaders No bosses!”
24.5″ x 34″ Acrylic on Masonite. I tore strips from the newspaper and glued as a border. These include the names of those killed in Orlando.
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33.5″ x 17″ Acrylic on canvas. This seems to be where the street sketches are taking me.
Urban Street Sketching.. Have to think of these like visual Journal Entries. I ran out of time.. onlookers interrupted me… (don’t happen often) Not a good effort, but I’m working on a couple of paintings now… building on these. I need (1) to work on drawing cars! and (2) work on techniques and experiment with materials for much rougher, quicker studies. Fine pen is good for quick studies only at small scale, or finishing at home.
Jacob Russell's Magic Names 