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This is a hand modified digital print on archival paper. Each print in this series includes an area printed on reflective metallic foils and then collaged onto the print's surface. The title of this piece comes from a quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” The piece evokes questions about historical interpretation, spectacle, and subjectivity. The foreground imagery shows a conquistador under the gaze of an old fashioned camera suggesting the perspective of one time period on another. The mid ground includes material more directly related to the ambiguously heroic 'Don Quixote' - windmills and medieval lords and vassals which tie back into the prints theme of the hero/villian. In the far background are photographs shot by the artist in predominantly Spanish speaking neighborhood of Bushwick Brooklyn - a district being rapidly invaded by gentrifiers in a distant echo of the European conquest of the Americas. The quote that inspired the print implies the eventual victory of truth over lies and distortions, but also truths fragility - in the metaphor truth is only a thin layer of oil floating on a sea of deception. This piece hints at the humor and ambiguity of historical interpretation. All pieces are hand signed and numbered by the artist on front in the lower right and on verso.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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I make thoughtful mixed-media works that mediate friction between narrative and materiality. Novelistic pastiche and intuitive abstract painting confront each other in a bricolage of photographs, paint, and found objects. From a trace discovered in a few abject elements at the beginning of my process, I interweave strata, adding and subtracting components strategically or intuitively to create a quirky grammar of intellect and wonder. While my development has been steadily nourished by great mixed-media artists of the past, including Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg and the Kienholzes, I'm also inspired by contemporaries like Fred Tomaselli, Julian Schnabel and Barnaby Furnas. Due to a lifelong visual impairment, I have access to the Library of Congress audio collection; the books I listen to while painting frequently inform my work. I think of my pieces as contemporary equivalents to religious icons, memory gardens or totem poles; abstracted story-boards in which the gaze explores systems of interpretation and meaning in a shared situation with the artwork. My practice seizes the narrative debris of Spectacle - advertisements with their flattened affect, litter, hyper-real media images, plastic paint - and humanizes them in matrices of personal symbolism. I strive to push the narrative element as far as it can go in materiality and, beyond merely illustrating, signify stories infused with broad, universal themes and questions.
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