Venus

I feel like ive been really lazy lately in regards to art. I need to make a new mailer, update my website, apply for a few residencies, get a show proposal together, get gallery proposals together...and although I know it's not totally true, I feel like i haven't painted anything good in forever.

It's pretty much my least favorite feeling ever so that's pretty cool, but at the very least it usually forces me to look for other things worth writing about, looking at, or remembering..and I found a couple good ones from back in school.

This piece was my version of a "Venus" or "Madonna", whichever religious or mythical symbolism you prefer for the mother, beauty, and fertility.

I;m not sure the text is necessary and I'm not a huge fan of the head, but unfortunately this piece either doesn't exist anymore or is packed in the recesses of my garage and I'll just have to live with the choices made at the time. I like seeing some of my current tendencies peeking through, the dashes, triangles, and layering, and really do find the piece a bit haunting. It's eight feet tall, if I remember correctly, and looms over you. Despite its expressive marks and transparent areas of paint, the figure has an interesting weight to it...

It would be interesting to come back to this piece. I think I'd make a few cahnges, ad a bit more marks in areas that seem unfinished or just passed over..but overall, absence makes the heart grow fonder....hope I didn't throw the thing away.