Show at Cambridge Artworks and Postcard-Painting images
Cambridge, UK: January-May 2013 Show: May 10, 11 & 12
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Making postcard-sized paintings of postcards of paintings and sending them in the mail.
Each postcard-painting is made in roughly 1 hr. on a 5x7 in. support - either a sheet of canvas paper or a canvas board. I paint directly from the postcard image, which means any side-effects from the mechanical reproduction of the image (such as discoloration, distortion of the aspect ratio, etc.) will likely become part of the postcard-painting image. The postcards are not selected using any method in particular. They are then sent in the mail as one would send a postcard and thus might be further altered over the course of their journey.
More About This Project
This project returns the mechanically reproduced image to a painted or handed form, yet one that nevertheless retains aspects common to the mechanically reproduced image and which will be treated much in the same way as a mechanically reproduced image.
This project is intended to raise questions about postcards and paintings. Regarding the postcard of a painting: how does the act of acquiring a postcard of a painting relate to the museum visit?; what do we wish when we acquire postcards of paintings and send them in the mail?; how do the actions that surround the postcard of a painting differ when compared with the way we would customarily treat an actual painting? Regarding the painting: what does it mean for famous paintings to be reproduced on postcards so often, where many of their particular qualities (such as their size, facture, aspect ratio, etc.) are lost in their nearly uniform presentation on the postcard?; how do these reproductions both hinder and aid one's attempt to learn about these paintings?
This project is intended to raise questions about postcards and paintings. Regarding the postcard of a painting: how does the act of acquiring a postcard of a painting relate to the museum visit?; what do we wish when we acquire postcards of paintings and send them in the mail?; how do the actions that surround the postcard of a painting differ when compared with the way we would customarily treat an actual painting? Regarding the painting: what does it mean for famous paintings to be reproduced on postcards so often, where many of their particular qualities (such as their size, facture, aspect ratio, etc.) are lost in their nearly uniform presentation on the postcard?; how do these reproductions both hinder and aid one's attempt to learn about these paintings?
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