Remnants of Taurus
Posted by David | Filed under Installations, Prints
Only a few more pieces of artwork from my current exhibition Cohabitants at the William King Museum
left to post!
The piece pictured below is a series of lithographs with a large amount of custom mat cutting (thanks to Betsey-Rose at American Folk Art & Framing for letting me use your robotic mat cutter!). It is titled, Remnants of Taurus (lithography, mat board, and rubylith) and, from what I gather, is the least popular piece I included in the show.
*The video is not part of Remnants of Taurus.
Taurus M1
Taurus HR1346
Taurus HR1409
Feero Molaf Duul (Part 3)
Posted by David | Filed under Digital, Drawings, Installations
This is the final part of the Feero Molaf Duul installation. It is comprised of five individually framed pieces. The three large pieces are titled Altruism w/-1/2 Spin (24″ x 24″ graphite drawings) and the two small pieces are each a Portrait of an Elementary Particle (approx. 10″ x 10″ lenticular prints with rubylith overlay).
Here is a link to a past installation that I created using multiple lenticular prints of Portraits of Elementary Particles. It includes a video that illustrates how a lenticular print is viewed (its not the best video in the world, but hopefully you can get the idea).
Some close-up shots (from two different angles) of the lenticular print Portrait of an Elementary Particle (without rubylith overlay):
Feero Molaf Duul (Part 2)
Posted by David | Filed under Digital, Installations, Prints
This part of Feero Molaf Duul consists of a long strip of grey paint extending to the ceiling with two white vinyl prints (thanks Logan!) adhered to it. Other than that, I don’t have much to say about this portion of the installation. I am much more interested in hearing what you have to say! Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
Feero Molaf Duul (Part 1)
Posted by David | Filed under Digital, Installations, Prints
Now we move on to the large wall painting/digital print/graphite drawing/lenticular print/vinyl print installation titled Feero Molaf Duul (the entire piece is shown in the first image below). The first part I’m going to talk about is the framed digital print portion of the overall installation, although technically untitled, I will be calling Microscopic Inspection (for reference purposes). As with every piece in the exhibit (besides Rosetta and RSTT) this entire installation is based upon my own observational figure drawings. Most of this piece is based off of my drawings of two close friends, TJ & Jessica (thanks guys!). Microscopic Inspection represents the deepest investigation and the furthest abstraction from my original drawings that appear in this show. It was all hand-drawn in Adobe Illustrator (except for the text, of course) — yes, hand-drawn! — no fancy computer 3-D shortcuts for me!
Interesting side note: After I had printed this piece out, framed it, and hung it, I noticed that one small, black shape was missing — it was just a blank white space! The reason for this is because I ‘hid’ (Illustrator users will know what I’m talking about – Command/3) the shape in question before I printed and didn’t ‘show’ it when I actually printed. This is what most people call a ‘happy accident’ because the solution I devised to rectify the situation (creating and applying a vinyl print directly to the digital print) is much stronger and adds another intriguing dimension to the print (the detail of this is shown in the second-to-last image of this post).
The text in the final image below directly correlates to the vinyl word installation Rosetta which will be discussed at length in a future post.
For your viewing pleasure I have included pictures of the actual print and some of the digital file below.
I’m sure there are going to be some questions regarding this piece, so, please, ask away!
Supersymmetry exists. . . just not here
Posted by David | Filed under Installations, Shows
I stated in a post dated April 5th, 2010 that I would be showing detailed versions of the new artwork that appears in my recent solo exhibition at the William King Museum. Here is the first and I apologize for the delay! It is an ephemeral acrylic wall painting, created specifically for the exhibit (and will be painted over upon the conclusion of the exhibit). I do not recall the dimensions, but it encompasses the entire small wall of the gallery. It is called Supersymmetry exists. . . just not here. The inspiration for this piece (as with many of the pieces in the show) derives from ideas presented by quantum physics. This piece specifically references (or draws inspiration from) supersymmetry (duh!), string theory and an investigation of the human body focusing on line and form. The relationship of this wall painting to those topics will become more evident once you see its partner, in the next post.
Cohabitants: Feero Molaf Duul
Posted by David | Filed under Events, Installations, Shows
For those of you who plan on seeing the show, please ignore the images below (as it will ruin the fun!).
Here are some shots (courtesy of Ed Mazure) of my current exhibition on display at the William King Museum in Abingdon, VA. The show was/is a success and I am very much looking forward to hearing some feedback on my latest work — so, please, come see the work and let me know what you think! It will be on display until August 22nd, 2010.
Also, throughout the spring/summer I will be posting more detailed versions of some of my newer work that appears in this exhibit, as well as a domestic installation that I am working on, so stay tuned!
If and when you see the show, you can walk right through that doorway and check out Heide Trepanier’s paintings. (Highly Recommended!!)
