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A short film was made of the opening
At
NYU I moved from the narrative low relief cut wooden panels to paintings
on paper, typically 30"x22" arches sheets and using commercial paint
sprayers to propel acrylic paints mixed with textured materials such as
diatomaceous earth to fine pigments projected through the more delicate air
brush. The subject matter comes extensively from my photographs - as images dissected and projected. They become layers of
reality as superimposition and mixed imagery replace the straight forward
narratives of the earlier period. The
Airbrush/projected photo technique made a lot of sense to me. I now could
work directly from my library of what was already to me, narrative imagery. Rather than compiling devices,
the photos typically manifested themselves more simply as individual concepts.
Although one device continues to appear. That is the superimposition of
multiple images in one subject. Typically deer or cows seem to fly in
alternative space in front of female subjects. In this I am suggesting
ambient images in real space and time as well as employing the device as a
compositional tool and to alter or enhance the straight forward scenario
provided by photography in and on its own. Most of the small work on paper
was shown in a very successful show in early 1982 in the Washington Square
Gallery in New York.
