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PUZZLE PIECES (Means of Production # 6).
I received Chris Rusak’s half of our collaboration, ‘The Capital’ (or ‘The Kapital’) which is the final component of our Source Material exhibition from last spring. Chris’s work has shifted dramatically and while this isn’t necessarily what I was expecting, I quite like the use of unorthodox materials as a support for painting and think it works well with my own approach.
The trick, however becomes unifying these separate elements, especially as Chris and I work on separate coasts and are 3000 miles apart. Upon playing with our two parts I decided to incorporate some more hard-edged elements into my own composition, and echo the strong diagonals in his composition. I think the pieces work better slightly separated (it keeps my piece of aluminum from looming too far in front of his panel and overwhelming it), so the final issue to address is how to link them across a small divide on the wall.
With Pynchon in Public Day coming up, I am posting an images of 2 recently completed works that are some of the first works in a series based on Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Gravity’s Rainbow.’
These both take details from the story and Juxtapose them with their real world analogs on the opposing faces of the aluminum. I will post the complete images on May 8th.
This corner of the studio looks like it’s getting a little out of control…
How that “panel” looks now on the studio wall in relation to the other sections of pipe. Part of the formal problem within this work is seeing how to move different areas of color through the painting. The text can be read by moving around the circumference of the pipe, but when the narrator “speaks” the text shifts direction and changes to a different stenciled font.
One unit from a still unfinished triptych with text appropriated from @RobertPearreOne
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