Ales Faley

Andrew Crane

sketches

John Crabtree

Mp Landis

My WD series, which i began in 1996 in an abandoned warehouse in East Rutherford, NJ, has become my most important body of work. These Warehouse Drawings (WD’s) are artifacts of my process of transforming the overstimulation of modern urban life into something simpler, direct, and emotional, while still showing the layers of the process. Each WD begins as a functional piece of paper, folded and carried with me throughout the day, and marked with date, place, and daily minutiae. I then draw and paint on them in response to whatever is happening in and outside of my studio. Making these WD’s has influenced the rest of my artwork. The portability, spontaneity, and obsessiveness of creating this WD series have all seeped into my other work, both subtly and overtly. All of my artwork deals with the functionality of process, and the materials at hand, in different ways. This photo album is a random collection of WD images that have been photographed or scanned for various reasons and I will continue to slowly add to it.

Karin Heij

TheRusty Show

Laura Tringali Holmes.

These works look at the voyeuristic and insular nature of American popular culture, with commentary on how not much has changed from the past to the present. About the eggs...of course they are embryonic, but they are also cages, and missiles.

With my choice of antique papers, I try to give viewers the sensation of looking at somebody else's memories and being able to feel what they felt when they felt it, juxtaposing the realities of then and now. Yes, it's a bit of a head game....

The works are deeply layered, with the decollaging process leaving rich colors of ink under the peel-offs. A variety of visual associations are embedded in color, texture, patterns, and imagery, many to support the theme of looking below the topmost plane to explore the layers of meaning that exist in even the most ordinary-appearing circumstances.

Laura Tringali Homes.