Faces and Narratives
Anxious Woman With Gray Squares, acrylic and collage, 2020
Lately I have, for not particular reason, been doing a lot of faces. I think I became enamored with the isolated face when, a couple years back, I did a raft of quick ink drawings based on the comic-page character Jiggs. These were freely brushed efforts that ignored features and their distinctive shapes. A snarl of a line, a blot, a spin of pigment could make up a face. You didn't need much: a few dots, an arc and dash or two and the brain finds a face.
This led to monoprints of characters that seemed to demand a narrative swinging vaguely around them. They got names -- Small Louie, Mister Diggs -- and then when the women arrived the characters took on more specific role like smokers or in a couple of cases "molls' with smoking guns.
This led to monoprints of characters that seemed to demand a narrative swinging vaguely around them. They got names -- Small Louie, Mister Diggs -- and then when the women arrived the characters took on more specific role like smokers or in a couple of cases "molls' with smoking guns.
End Of Civilization As We Know It 8, acrylic and collage on paper, 2020