PAINTING POSSIBILITIES

Series
Acrylic gesso, canvas, staples, various metal hardware, mixed media
2011-2017
Dimensions vary

For the series Painting Possibilities, I reimagined the painter’s canvas as a utilitarian device related to the everyday. Many artists throughout the 20th century used commercial and cultural appropriation to turn “things” into “art.” A major landmark of this era was the creation of Fountain from 1917 by French/American artist Marcel Duchamp. One hundred years later, I respond to this lineage of art history by returning the white monochromatic modernist artwork back into an ordinary object.

This series is also inspired by hometown of Las Vegas and its ability of being both sign and place simultaneously.