Sunday, December 01, 2013

Channeling Jackson Pollock

I've created a large painting in the style of Jackson Pollock, with a window in the middle where a video plays and shows that part of the painting (where the window has been cut) as it is being created... below is the video itself.

In other words, if you see this piece hanging, you may glance at it and think: "There goes another artist channeling Jackson Pollock..." but if you stay a few seconds, the middle of the painting dissolves (it is a video) and it starts with a blank, white space, which slowly gets covered in drips of paints, until the piece is finished again!

Below is the piece drying inside my studio in between layers of paints... note the window in the center...




And here is the work, still with the cut out window in place, but now with all the Pollockian layers of paint...


And here is the video that plays in that middle window...


And below you can see several images of the finished piece with various parts of the video playing where the painting develops... some shot inside studio and one outside in bright sunhine... but behold "Channeling Jackson Pollock"


Channeling Jackson Pollock  Oil and embedded video on Gessoed Paper. 2013. 30x60 inches.
Channeling Jackson Pollock
Oil and embedded video on Gessoed Paper. 2013. 30x60 inches.


Channeling Jackson Pollock  Oil and embedded video on Gessoed Paper. 2013. 30x60 inches.






No comments:

Post a Comment

Comments