Manufacturing Consent

Artists are always using what is around them, such as images, information, readymades, and materials. In this piece, I've appropriated a page from Cormac McCarthy's The Road, resized it, and combined it with other materials. People who have watched the popular television series Breaking Bad may recognize the painting on the aluminum plate. The title references work by Noam Chomsky.   

40" x 48", oil paint, aluminum plate, brass chain, copper tubing, brass fittings, dolls, canvas, paper, epoxy resin, acrylic primer, wood, 2014. 

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Dirty Business

This piece is a combination of materials: oil and acrylic paint, brass plate, steel chain, steel wire, canvas, paper, foam, epoxy resin, adhesive, primer, gesso, and wood. It measures 29" x 44.5", though portions of the wall on which it hangs can be seen within its space. Film geeks may recognize that the painting on the brass plate is a scene from The Godfather, moments before Al Pacino's character, Michael Corleone, kills Sollozzo. 

Here is a detail: