Here are the pieces that will be on display at the Art LA Contemporary, January 27-30 at The Barker Hanger in Santa Monica. I will have a full wall at the Luis De Jesus Los Angeles booth, along with my the extraordinary LA based painter, Heather Gwen Martin and international provocateur Federico Solmi.
Framing Exercise #7
While this work has been largely about using frames from illuminated manuscripts to frame the image, so that the frame of the picture relates to a type of literary framing that helps make sense of how the literary and the photographic overlap in my work. This is an attempt at interrogating that relationship, replacing parts of the literary frame with sections of pattern.
Framing Exercise #8
The photograph is surprising, because the effect in person is one of silver sheen with accents of blues and copper. The image isn't scratched into, just pushed to the background, observable through the paint.
Framing Exercise #9
Here I was trying to break down the frame more, make it conform a bit more to the style of manipulations I'm using, rather than copying directly from historical sources.
Framing Exercise #10
Who can resist a big silver swath of cabbage roses?
Framing Exercise #11
I like to think that it's bleeding copper in the upper left corner.
Framing Exercise #12
Black with a silver mist, while the white paper that's exposed by scratching remains white.
In Framing Exercise #13, there is a cut away area that exposes a drawing of a leafy wallpaper pattern in the upper left corner. It's the first time I've scratched through to expose something beneath.
This is how Framing Exercise #13 looks during the night time.
Framing Exercise #14.
