BFA Thesis Exhibition

Agora - Contemporary fine art gallery - Chelsea art galleries district - New York City

Agora - Contemporary fine art gallery - Chelsea art galleries district - New York City

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Gag on the eleganza.

Another study, very much in-progress, playing with the artist/model theme. Thought I'd photograph and post it before I go into it with gouache... just in case it looks awful. Right now it's graphite, watercolor and inkwash. 23"x24".

Just had the other study in a show for V-Day 2011

"Three Faces of Eve", inkwash on watercolor paper. 36"x40". 2007.

I just came across this drawing recently, it hadn't been photographed - it's a hundred percent drawn from observation and studies, a way of working that I dearly miss lately. Above - a studio shot from around midnight 2/14. Can't wait to finish that big drawing.

This painting is finally almost done, maybe... 43" x 35", acrylic and latex paint on wood panel. I thought it would be fun to show an in-progress shot from a few months ago. What a mess!

I have no idea what to name it though, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Brief Statement

This body of work is being developed as a part of my senior thesis this year. It began as a body of work based on the idea of a feminine image strongly influenced by 20th century pin-up girl images.
Pin-up artists that I love:

Alberto Vargas
Gil Elvgren
George Petty
Olivia de Berardinis
Peter Driben
Art Frahm
Carlos Cartagena
The "Girls Club": Joyce Ballantyne, Pearl Frush, and Zoe Mozert

The pair of images at the top are two small acrylic paintings on paper - both in-progress and far from finished. Both paintings are supposed to simultaneously represent David and Judith.

W.I.P. - "Self-Portrait of the Artist As Model".

Watercolor & graphite on Arches Cover. 2010. 22"x30".

"Untitled (diptych)". Watercolor and graphite on Rives BFK. 2010. 11"x17"

(I'm in the middle of mounting these onto black paper, so they soon will be 15.5"x19")

Just a studio shot of the big panel painting I've got going on right now - I took this picture today and it's already changed. The plan is to get this one and the small painting to the left finished by next Monday, and I cross my fingers.