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My work primarily focuses on the innovation and failure of iconic twentieth-century architecture. I create cardboard replica models of modern structures, disfigure the models and translate the compositions to canvas using enamel and acrylic spray paints. The paintings are executed through a complex process of masking and layering the paints on canvas. My inclusion of marks left on the canvas by debris scattered in the painting process highlights the physicality of the works. It acts as an attempt to recover lost information of the studio process and embraces chance as an aesthetic choice critical to the contemporary discourse. I incorporate historical elements like the Baroque chiaroscuro painting technique, traditions in the still life and portraiture movements, and techniques used in the formulaic color analysis of the Op-Art movement. I also translate these elements in sculptural form by casting fragments of the original cardboard models in plaster and applying acrylic spray paint to the surface. For me, both the paintings and sculptures act as portraits; and although the subjects become fractured through historical-based filters and physical manipulation, the disfigured remnants of architectural icons like, "Falling Water" and "Villa Savoye" are discernible, if only re-envisioned. |
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