Bio: MFA 1977, BFA 1975, Cal Arts:
"Welcome to my world of art!"
20th-21st Century Contemporary American Art
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Top: Rena Small Self Portrait 1994
Andy Warhol 1985 signing America in
New York City at Rizzoli's in Soho
Joan Jonas 2010 New York City with her
favorite notebook.
DEVO playing card collage;
Jerry Casale 2000, Bob Casale 2000, Bob Mothersbaugh 2000 and
Mark Mothersbaugh 1996: Collaged group of 4 individuals from Artists' Hands, designed for the face of a deck of playing cards: 40 are still available for sale, from the first edition run of 300 decks.
Middle Image: Jean-Michel Basquait
Begun in 1984, Artists' Hands, the series, is both epic and intimate, and, reminds audiences to appreciate artists working and expressing their various devoted visions freely, to inspire, and evolve peaceful cultures throughout the world.
Artists' Hands Grid Continuum installation is ready for a travelling exhibition: 248 Silver Gelatin prints framed in white flat mat 22 x18 inch, will assemble together in a modular pattern, anchored to the walls of the given public venue, onto a-levelled-steel-wall brackets. The installation includes my first handmade letterpress book, "Artists' Hands I" on loan from the J.Paul Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CA.
The Moon is Black 1988, 20 x 24 inch Polaroid with a water-color 17 inch diameter moon painting in the backdrop; excerpt from the series The Moon is Twelve Colors. Black recalls the tragedy of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which emerged in New York City in 1981 when suddenly friends were dying so young from this disease.
All my art is created using techniques I've mastered and is produced true to the classical values of a handmade archive object. Whether I employ silver gelatin photographs, hand-sculpted 2-dimensional paintings on mahoghany doorskin, archive ink jet color prints from original scans; or present -- from my library of early archive and now considered "vintage 20 x 24 inch color Polaroid and SX-70 Prints:" All materials and studio time which were granted for my use - the first AP in trade to build onto the Polaroid Art Collection from 1977-1987. Over 100 of my images were sold off in 2010 at Sothebys, NYC from the Polaroid Corporations' Art Collection (after Polaroid went bankrupt due to the creation of digital photography) and is was purchased by the Westlicht Schauplatz fur Fotografie, in Vienna, Austria.
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Chocolates 2023,
36 x 22 inches, acrylic on mahogany door skin, is one example of my ongoing series since 1989, "The Fake-O Cards" inspired by the Haines 1936 deck --used by Hollywood Magic Castle Close-up Magicians to warm up their audiences by producing a cards from their pockets or sleight of hand, that do not exist.
All my art is titled by American slang language, words and phrases, created by me, or, researched and appropriated from the past which represent moments of time between people talking, or, eating chocolates, from real-life experiences, restructured into
art objects.
Race Card, 2020,
54 x 36 inches acrylic, epoxy on mahogany door skin,
represents my total disdain of Racism, replacing the concept
with a celebration of the
beautiful and rich colors of our human beings' skin tones--symbolized in the epoxy-surfaced-reflecting-spades.
The phrase race card first came into play in 1995 during the O.J. Simpson trial, coined by one of his lawyers, Johnny Cochran as one featured source of this words' common usage.