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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Spectacle & Sprawl Series
Spectacle & Sprawl is a series about planned communities, class and cultural design. Featuring the NYC residential skyscraper, 56 Leonard St. "The Jenga building" was designed by Herzog & de Meuron architecture firm. The midcentury modern houses of Daly City, California, were built for the working class and grew into American suburbia. Painting these two planned communities juxtaposes America's urban planning practices concerning land use, class and capitalism. Image transfers echo the reproductive qualities of the mass production style of the housing. At the same time, the use of abstraction, mark-making, and color, which are unique to each painting, speak to American individualism. Daly City, Westlake, California
The Daly City house is a "Hyper Object" as it is iconic and holds many places in the American vernacular.
Daly City, CA, was one of the first planned communities to 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
56 Leonard St. “Glass Castle,”
Tribeca, NYC
My paintings of 56 Leonard St., the slender skyscraper famously known as the "Jenga Building" for its unique cantilevering architecture, is a majestic presence of a glass castle in the sky. It symbolizes the growing wealth gap at the ground level; it is part of the Spectacle & Sprawl series, an offshoot of the American Bones project. Through this series, I pair two distinct planned communities, residential skyscrapers and Spectacle, with the sprawl of places like Daly City, CA, for the middle-class rows of identical manufactured homes. This work critically reflects the socio-economic disparities and architectural expressions that aggravate them in urban spaces.
︎︎︎ 56 LEONARD STREET, TRIBECA NYC ARCHITECT HERZOG DE MEURON
︎︎︎ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, CHARCOAL ON PAPER, FOUR PAINTINGS IN TOTAL. THE LARGEST IS UNSTRETCHED, 6’5” X 40”
Spectacle & Sprawl is a series about planned communities, class and cultural design. Featuring the NYC residential skyscraper, 56 Leonard St. "The Jenga building" was designed by Herzog & de Meuron architecture firm. The midcentury modern houses of Daly City, California, were built for the working class and grew into American suburbia. Painting these two planned communities juxtaposes America's urban planning practices concerning land use, class and capitalism. Image transfers echo the reproductive qualities of the mass production style of the housing. At the same time, the use of abstraction, mark-making, and color, which are unique to each painting, speak to American individualism. Daly City, Westlake, California
The Daly City house is a "Hyper Object" as it is iconic and holds many places in the American vernacular.
Daly City, CA, was one of the first planned communities to 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
56 Leonard St. “Glass Castle,”
Tribeca, NYC
My paintings of 56 Leonard St., the slender skyscraper famously known as the "Jenga Building" for its unique cantilevering architecture, is a majestic presence of a glass castle in the sky. It symbolizes the growing wealth gap at the ground level; it is part of the Spectacle & Sprawl series, an offshoot of the American Bones project. Through this series, I pair two distinct planned communities, residential skyscrapers and Spectacle, with the sprawl of places like Daly City, CA, for the middle-class rows of identical manufactured homes. This work critically reflects the socio-economic disparities and architectural expressions that aggravate them in urban spaces.
︎︎︎ 56 LEONARD STREET, TRIBECA NYC ARCHITECT HERZOG DE MEURON
︎︎︎ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, CHARCOAL ON PAPER, FOUR PAINTINGS IN TOTAL. THE LARGEST IS UNSTRETCHED, 6’5” X 40”
