PAINTING
PORTFOLIOS
SPECTACLE & SPRAWL SERIES
2016-2023
NARRATIVE
SPECTACLE & SPRAWL SERIES
2016-2023
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 an ongoing series about planned communities' class and cultural design.
The Daly City house is a "Hyper Object" as it is iconic and holds a place in the American vernacular.
Daly City, CA, was one of the first planned communities to specifically house workers and returning GIs. Architect Doelger's 1948's "House of the Moment" was a zeitgeist for the American Dream and midcentury modern architecture.
I am painting 1000 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 mirrors America's prefab manufacturing efficiency and the mythos of American individualism.
︎︎︎ 2016-2023
︎︎︎ 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 an ongoing series about planned communities' class and cultural design.
The Daly City house is a "Hyper Object" as it is iconic and holds a place in the American vernacular.
Daly City, CA, was one of the first planned communities to specifically house workers and returning GIs. Architect Doelger's 1948's "House of the Moment" was a zeitgeist for the American Dream and midcentury modern architecture.
I am painting 1000 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 mirrors America's prefab manufacturing efficiency and the mythos of American individualism.
︎︎︎ 2016-2023
︎︎︎ 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”
