Initially this
exhibition was going to be a selection of unfinished works and objects that people always seem drawn to when visiting my studio. Researching "unfinished art", I read an article in the New York Times
from January 2014 on the subject, an earlier one in the Huffington Post, and looked at Donatello's non finito works. However, when I began gathering the pieces from my studio, I felt like
selecting and arranging these objects would in fact constitute the act
completing them. I considered collaborating with another artist to
perform this task, but in the end decided it might be more fun to drop
the concept and just finish some of the work...
Earlier this year I purchased an airbrush set-up that had previously been used at a
Spray Tanning Salon. During a Seattle Night Out block party in my
Rainier Beach neighborhood, I volunteered to do airbrush face painting. I
got a feel for the airbrush at that time, and returning to my studio,
decided it might be fun to give some of these unfinished works a "Spray
Tan". The works in this show are acrylic paint and ink on previously
unfinished collage of various kinds of adhesive tape on architectural
vellum film.
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| Path, 24" x 24", acrylic paint and ink on vellum film with polyimide tape, 2014 |
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| Spray Tan, 8" x 13", acrylic paint and ink on vellum film with vinyl, polyimide and PTFE tape, 2014 |
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| Veil, 17.5"x18.5", acrylic paint and ink on vellum film with vinyl, and PTFE fiber tape, 2014 |
