The Wallpaper Series
1997 - 2008
I originally conceived these works as a tongue and cheek postmodern attack on the under-valuing of photography and over-valuing of paint on canvas in the arts. I saw it as a way to cheat my way into the art world without actually painting. The work started losing its cynical edge the more work I sold and became essentially just art.
Deceptively conceptual, they are digital renderings of original photographs that have an organic noise that is unique to each work. I used my innate sense of composition and enhanced it with the use of noise from a photocopy machine and embellished it with acrylic paint to produce works that are both paintings and photography, while existing as not quite either. My intent was to have archival works that look good above your sofa as wallpaper (thus the name Wallpaper Series), but if you are interested, there is a deeper meaning to each work that can be appreciated.
Method
I printed out a black and white copy of a photograph I took and blew the work up on an oversized photo copy machine. I stretch a canvas and glue the paper to it with acrylic medium. I then apply colored acrylic paint over the image.
Though pieces in this series are all over the world, I sold most of my work in California, including one work to the 2006 Poet Laureate of San Francisco, Jack Hirschman.
I had a few that were a series in themselves. There were the Motorcycle Innards Series, the Pigeon Series, and a series of nudes.
