These are inspired
by the work of Chuck Close. They're based on the theory that your eye will mix the colors you palate knife didn't.
Put red next to yellow and then next to green, and your eye will perceive the color brown. With that in mind, any image
can occupy the tiny squares. Sometimes and abstract spiral like in "Kiss". Sometimes a repeated image
like the music notes in "Sing" and on the sometimes I used letters like those that made up Barack Obama's speach
in the 2004 DNC, quotes from Che Guevara or excerpts from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
With these pixellated portraits I
thought of the saying- "A picture is worth a thousand words"- and wondered what a picture made up of a thousand
words might look like. I am painting a series of the idolized. Their images incite strong emotions, but reducing
them to that image is unfair and sometimes dangerous. Recognition is not understanding. Greatness comes with many
layers. I've painted a fraction of two.
"Speak" - Barack Obama
18x24 copyright 2008
"Reason" Ayn Rand
18"x24" copyright 2009
Kiss
38"x24" copyright 2005
"Revolt" Che Guevara
18x24 copyright 2009
"Sing" Carrie Manolakos
12"x24" copyright 2008
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