‘misc’
The work takes it’s theme, (and materials) from our throw-away / cast-off culture we see becoming ever more apparent:‘food’ wrapping, plastic toys, construction materials, packaging, broken stuff, and other toxic junk that seems to surround and engulfs us; cast off and dumped wherever…
The initial concern was the growing colonies of cast-off people living in the streets, under the freeways, in abandoned buildings; survivors of our throw-away wars, collapsed families and communities, the addiction / medication industries, and other traumatizing by-products of a hierarchical, debt / consumption, treadmill culture that has become grotesquely competitive, disconnecting, and merciless.
One way or another, like Nature itself…sprouting through cracks and chinks, climbing across ruins and dumps, people at the bottom survive too
So this work seeks to consider our anthropological trash heap, as a telling barometer of where ‘advancement’, and ‘progress’, and ‘growth’, might actually be trending, alongside record-breaking financial markets and luxury towers, the thrown-away that’s less and less ‘hidden’, and more and more ‘ in plain sight’.
Chaise Bather, 2018, plastic chaiise, photo on paper, plastic bucket half, resin, paint
Untitled, 2019, 36″l x 27″w x 78″h, shopping cart with emty beer cans, photo fragments froming faces,
Drawer portrait, 2019, 17″w x 23″h x 3″d, drawer parts, foil pie plate, ketchup envelope, paint, resin, photo on paper
2019, plastic bucket half, clothing, photo on paper, resin, paint
Floor Piece, 2020, photos on canvas on plywood, overall dimensions, 78″l x 32′w
Exhibition View oval portraits, 2020
Tire Portrait, 2020, 78″h x 36″w x 12″d, mixed media
Flat, Reclining Figure, 2019, 44″h x 48″w x 4′d, wood, photo, resin, paint
- Exhibition View, 2020
Exhibition View, 2020
