Monthly Archives: October 1997

19 Discontinued Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oil Colour Series, 1996-7

October 2, 1997 – 4:34 pm

I often employ other people’s selections of colours and patterns as the basis for abstraction, but here the selection is one of discontinuance. The connotations are numerous and it turns these otherwise modernist grids into something mildly foreboding. The series is comprised of 48 small canvasses and some vinyl signage.

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Bedroom Fighter Series, 1997

October 2, 1997 – 4:34 pm

The paintings of the Bedroom Fighter Series are condensations of what one might find in a boy’s bedroom. They are at once part couch, part airplane wing, part headboard, and part modeling kit. For a boy’s bedroom they are certainly over indulgent; for a gallery they raise male juvenile sensibilities to an almost surreal level….

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Armstrong Linoleum Tile Series, 1997

October 2, 1997 – 4:29 pm

The Armstrong Linoleum Tile pieces are large modernist grids of commercial floor tiling. They take aim at the distilled manners of late modernist abstraction and the starched atmosphere of the contemporary gallery. That said, I enjoy the visual relationship that sets up between the large coloured tiles, the fleck pattern within them, and the plywood…

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Bed Sheet Spitfire Series, 1997

October 2, 1997 – 4:16 pm

The Bed Sheet Fighter Series combines two trends in my work: the use of found objects in lieu of modernist stylings and the creation of illustrative renderings for boy’s bedrooms. Bed Sheet Spitfire I, 1997 Size: 2(2’7″ x 2’7″) Medium: Bed Sheet and Oil on Canvas Bed Sheet Spitfire II, 1997 Size: 2’9″ x 5’6″…

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