Polyurethane, custom vinyl decals, and acrylic on canvas
8 × 8 inches
Polyurethane, custom vinyl decals, and acrylic on canvas
8 × 8 inches
Polyurethane, custom vinyl decals, and acrylic on canvas
8 × 8 inches
Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
These works started with sketches and renderings of things I actually wanted to make, but which required fabrication I couldn't afford and space I didn't have. The harder I reached the further things receded. So I decided to make these works at a remove, to re-build the render, to embrace their placeholder status, to honor their what-if state. They are artworks about artworks that exist in a perpetual state of latency, waiting for funding, approval, or permission to become real.
Each work is built as a trompe l'oeil stack: a nondescript decal standing in for a gallery wall with color shifted whites over which a second decal of a sculptural form hangs in the obligatory three-quarter view of an alternate reality. Public funding for the arts has always been scarce- and now it's being actively dismantled. Everything exists in a permanent state of proposal. These paintings are workarounds of that condition: asking us to enter their world instead of waiting for a door to open into ours.