This is a piece I worked artistically for the first time last night. It's come together over the last couple days by painting strips of wood black, leaving an abstract pattern of black lines, drips, and stains over the canvas where the strips were not present. Sort of an unintended masking which left very interesting intersections, composition and dynamics, completely void of any planning and thought. I thought the quick dashes of color complemented the "sketchy" quality of the lines, and the overall subtlety of colors created a very natural look.
The name "Out Getting Ribs" actually comes from the piece of the same title by Jean Michel Basquiat, brought to my attention in the movie "Basquiat" where the note is posted on his studio door as he mourns the death of his friend Andy Warhol. A powerful juxtaposition of the simplicity of the statement with the intensity and diversity of the emotions felt at that moment...
The piece is somber and simple and it's quite different from the pieces I've been doing recently. It's a bit melancholy with a dash of anger...It's frivolous and immense at the same time and that division, that uncertainty with the piece is what stands out to me at the moment.
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