nastyass

Playing 'Possum

Silverpoint on Primed 

Surface 

ugly size

Who let that thing in?

Embrace

Embrace

chalk on fabric

4 x 4 

I call these fabric drawings paintings. There's no paint but they hang on 

a wall, they have all the elements of painting-color, value, scale, line, concept, etc..

But im learning each time about how much object-hood these pieces hold.  Fabric is not stretched canvas, it moves, changes and takes on the character of its installation. It is

sculptural as well as painterly. boy I'm talking a lot. 

Self Portrait Sans Self

portrait

36h x 68w

charcoal on poplin

I became fascinated with Ingres' drawings of posing socialites. He spent all his time making a likeness because these people who were paying him well thought that they were attractive. most were wrong but he scrupulously described their faces anyway. Yet the best part of these drawings is not the posers but the posers' fantastic clothes. He drew this fabric with sharp confidence that made me want to take it as a challenge to recreate. It was impossible. Then i learned he was cheating with a camera lucida but by then i had made this drawing. I decided that i would describe the clothes in detail and avoid my features. the fabric was what i was interested in and unlike those french, uppity bitches, i'm no poser. 

now its done.

blueberries

36h x 60w

chalk, oil pastel, poplin collage 

ok now its done. this is now hanging in my bedroom. its the only piece i have ever made that i 

can look at upon waking.  it calms me. i don't know why but its very rare for me to want to keep a painting around.