Friday, September 23, 2011

Elaine Stocki and the Grange Prize.




















Balcony, 2009, Chromogenic print, 66 x 66 cm, Elaine Stocki 


Elaine Stocki, has been nominated for the 2011 Grange Prize, which has a mandate to recognize the best in Canadian and international contemporary photography. She has a 1 in 4 chance of receiving a $50,000 grant, but only if you vote from August 30 to November 27. You can vote on-site at the exhibition (at the AGO in Toronto Canada), or online (see below for link). The Grange Prize is entirely won by online votes, so please cast a vote, just take a minute and go to this website to vote for her (or someone else if you must):
http://thegrangeprize.com/vote-2011
 
 

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Ramnant Paintings: 2011



Ramnant (After Jacques-Louis David's Les Derniers moments de Michel Lepeletier 1793), oil and acrylic on canvas, 28x34 inches.


















Ramnant (After Gerhard Richter's Hitler from 1962), oil on canvas, 28x34 inches.


   The two paintings I am calling Remnant's, are based on two other paintings destroyed for simple seemingly upfront political reasons. Richter's painting was destroyed by his own hand after showing Hitler in a gallery show in Germany in the early 60's, and David's Le Peletier Assassinated was destroyed by Le Peletier's royalist daughter (he was a republican martyr during the revolution) after the French revolution failed, which is known only by a drawing, an engraving, and contemporary accounts.

   I find the censure of both paintings fascinating, one by the artist, and the other by the subjects family reaching the same present day result. That result being the paintings physical destruction, but not the images death.

I based my paintings off reproductions that remain of the originals, bad photographs and riped engravings. I still like the idea of remaking old lost "problem" paintings, but have run out of ideas of other lost ones to make. If anyone looking at this has a suggestion of a painting, please leave it in the comments for this post. Thanks in advance. 


Sunday, February 20, 2011

Paintings 2010 Part 2:



Defaced 1535 (Saint Francis), oil on canvas, 16x20 inches


Mark Spitz, oil on canvas, 24x17 inches


 AGFAchrome, oil on wood, 28x34 inches.


 A Ghost Descending a Staircase, oil on canvas, 16x20 inches


Kansas, oil on canvas, 12x16 inches.


Breakfast Club, oil on wood panel, 17x22 inches. 


Plantation, oil on canvas, 16x12 inches.