While normally my work is quite minimal, in these drawings I’m withholding the final decisions about tones, planes, and placement of the object on the sheet of paper for as long as possible. This delay allows me the opportunity to question my assumptions and survey numerous options before committing to a particular one.
The resulting multitude of marks creates images that occupy for me that liminal space between abstraction and representation, between gesture and studied passage, in effect exploring those almost unrecognizable images that I work with in animation. I'm pushing off the image rather than trying to reproduce it, placing as much focus on the act of searching-seeing as on the object itself. While some of the drawings appear abstract, if you read them closely, the material object that I'm referencing does begin to take shape.
I chose Mickey Mouse as one of the primary subjects for this series of complex drawings because the character represents to me a disappointed promise made in childhood (1950s and 60s) that life was going to be simple and easy, and full of realized dreams. These complex, sexualized, and deeply engaged drawings communicate a very different Disney-like character.
jun04_10
Black pencil on paper, 20 X 15 inches, 2010
September 01
Black pencil on paper, 15 X 22 inches, 2009
August 26
Black pencil on paper, 15 X 22 inches, 2009
August 25
Black pencil on paper, 15 X 22 inches, 2009
August 18 SOLD
Black pencil on paper, 15 X 22 inches, 2009
July 28 SOLD
Black pencil on paper, 15 X 22 inches, 2009
July 30 SOLD
Black pencil on paper, 15 X 22 inches, 2009
July 14
Black pencil on paper, 11 X 15 inches, 2009
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