PAINTING
PORTFOLIOS
SPECTACLE & SPRAWL SERIES
2016-2020
NARRATIVE
SPECTACLE & SPRAWL SERIES
2016-2020
NARRATIVE
OF HOUSING.
- SPECTACLE & SPRAWL
- AMERICAN BONES
- AMUSEMENT ARCHITECTURE
- EUROPEAN SERIES
- BIRDS ON A WIRE
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Daly City, Westlake California
Spectacle & Sprawl is a series about planned communities' class and cultural design.
The Daly City house is a "Hyper Object" holding iconic meaning in the American vernacular.
Daly City, CA, was one of the first planned communities to specifically house workers and returning GIs. So the Westlake area featuring architect Doelger's 1948's "House of the Moment" was a zeitgeist moment for the American Dream and midcentury modern architecture.
I painted 100 small 10x10' paintings on wood panels with an image transfer of Doelger's house. The conformity of the reproductive image of the house with the differing painting treatments expresses the tension between America's prefab manufacturing efficiency and the mythos of American individualism. At the same time, mirroring the artist's push and pull of abstraction and representation.
︎︎︎ 2016-2020
︎︎︎ FOTO TRANSFER
︎︎︎ HOUSES 10X10” ACRYLIC ON PANEL
︎︎︎ DALY CITY, WESTLAKE COMMUNITY,CA ARCHITECT, Henry Doelger
Glass Castle, Tribeca, NYC
The skinny skyscraper, 56 Leonard St., is its own "Hyper Object," Its cantilevering architecture has given it the nickname the "Jenga Building." An appropriate metaphor as these residential towers contributes to "zombie urbanism" Never occupied, never rented, they are investments to bank personal wealth. Architecture as "spatial, financial products." While a beautiful vertical slit in the sky, they are a symptom of the widening wealth gap on the ground. Pulling these two planned communities together tells many versions of American identity.
*Spectacle & Sprawl is a spin-off of American Bones, the artist's multimedia project exploring cultural narratives that form the bone structure of America's identity.
︎︎︎ 56 LEONARD STREET,TRIBECA NYC ARCHITECT HERZOG DE MEURON
︎︎︎ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS,CHARCOAL ON PAPER FOUR PAINTINGS IN TOTAL. LARGEST IS UNSTRETCHED 6’5” X 40”
Spectacle & Sprawl is a series about planned communities' class and cultural design.
The Daly City house is a "Hyper Object" holding iconic meaning in the American vernacular.
Daly City, CA, was one of the first planned communities to specifically house workers and returning GIs. So the Westlake area featuring architect Doelger's 1948's "House of the Moment" was a zeitgeist moment for the American Dream and midcentury modern architecture.
I painted 100 small 10x10' paintings on wood panels with an image transfer of Doelger's house. The conformity of the reproductive image of the house with the differing painting treatments expresses the tension between America's prefab manufacturing efficiency and the mythos of American individualism. At the same time, mirroring the artist's push and pull of abstraction and representation.
︎︎︎ 2016-2020
︎︎︎ FOTO TRANSFER
︎︎︎ HOUSES 10X10” ACRYLIC ON PANEL
︎︎︎ DALY CITY, WESTLAKE COMMUNITY,CA ARCHITECT, Henry Doelger
Glass Castle, Tribeca, NYC
The skinny skyscraper, 56 Leonard St., is its own "Hyper Object," Its cantilevering architecture has given it the nickname the "Jenga Building." An appropriate metaphor as these residential towers contributes to "zombie urbanism" Never occupied, never rented, they are investments to bank personal wealth. Architecture as "spatial, financial products." While a beautiful vertical slit in the sky, they are a symptom of the widening wealth gap on the ground. Pulling these two planned communities together tells many versions of American identity.
*Spectacle & Sprawl is a spin-off of American Bones, the artist's multimedia project exploring cultural narratives that form the bone structure of America's identity.
︎︎︎ 56 LEONARD STREET,TRIBECA NYC ARCHITECT HERZOG DE MEURON
︎︎︎ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS,CHARCOAL ON PAPER FOUR PAINTINGS IN TOTAL. LARGEST IS UNSTRETCHED 6’5” X 40”
