Degrees of Artifice

Big Pink
2016, 78 x 60 inches

Arbitration
2016, 50 x 132 inches

Departures 2016, 62 x 84 inches

Installation view with Arbitration and Departures
2016

Arbitration
2016, 50 x 132 inches

Installation view with Degrees of Artifice and Façade
2016

Installation view with After Tanizaki and Façade
2014

After Tanizaki
2016, 5.25 x 5.75 inches

Arbitration
2016, 50 x 132 inches

Departures
2016, 62 x 84 inches

Wonderland
2016, 17 x 23 inches

Degrees of Artifice
(2016 – ongoing)
The gallery installation images are from Danese/Corey, New York 2016.

A few subjects under consideration in the process of making of these;

Sex
Innocence
The intricacies of arbitration
Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows
Powder-blue tuxedos
Velour
Degrees of artifice
Death
Cangiantismo as it relates to Michelangelo's Libyan Sybil and Renaissance Color theory
Yojiro Takita's film Departures
Deference
Sontag's Notes on Camp
Toulouse Lautrec's Private Room
Burlesque