Conceptually the works focus on topics like image property rights and the contextualization of modern art masterpieces into postmodern dialogues. These practices prompt the question, when does the individual artist’s right to uniqueness expire, or at least diminish enough for re-appropriation and consumption ?
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Conceptually the works focus on topics like image property rights and the contextualization of modern art masterpieces into postmodern dialogues. These practices prompt the question, when does the individual artist’s right to uniqueness expire, or at least diminish enough for re-appropriation and consumption ?
Visually there is a focus on shallow fragmented spaces that are populated with historic icons, product packaging, and recognizable modern masterpieces. These elements build a narrative through the series’ chronology and reveal themselves as palimpsests as viewers unravel the particular condition of any singular image within the history of a series.
Technically during the evolution of an image single issue prints are made, representing the entire history of each image. This allows the images to become serialized, and the run depth is defined by the amount of unique iterations within the entire series’ development. Please note that each image is only printed once, securing its uniqueness within a run of similar images.
Biographically the past two years represent a series arc that started as an exploration of the unfinished dialogue / subtext of modern art since the U.S. stewardship began in the 1950’s. Of particular interest are artists whose works were significant in their time but have been dismissed or rerouted by history, leaving their dialogue with modern art left open and unanswered. Read Less
