Tuesday, December 8, 2009

authenticity: making real an image the public has made unreal

elvis on his bicycle on a backlot in hollywood, an immediate juxtaposition of real vs unreal, man vs image, representation vs innocence ...

and then the interpretation of the innocence is again brought back to media form ...

as an artist i'm removing the initial context and isolating the conversation, placing elvis's legacy, the public's perceptions and contemporary art into a renewed dialogue.

... using old media to tell a new story, here taking the source material used to make the artwork above, a photo-polymer gravure print, edition of 25 works, 22 x 30 inches, and here making a unique Emulsion and gelatin painting, 45 x 54 inches, applying brushstrokes of liquified emulsion and then dripping stain and gelatin onto the canvas in the dark, I then project the negative/positive image of elvis onto the surface of the painted canvas, then process this material in the darkroom, markmaking and stains still visible on the surface, thus again moving the image into another contextual place.

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