Handmade Readymade, 2005 - ongoing

(acrylic paint on canvas)

The Handmade Readymade project is an ongoing series of canvases painted to resemble books. The paintings function as trompe l'oeil in the round, as text works, found poetry, as constructed mini-narratives and as stand-ins for grand universal themes.

An exercise in scale, appropriation and re-purposing - language is offered up as a material, oscillating between the visual and the communicative.

Through the transformative properties of re-making, the found text and images mutate and become malleable to new meaning.

Handmade Readymade Series

(acrylic paint on canvas)
2005 - ongoing

The Handmade Readymade project is an ongoing series of canvases painted to resemble books. The paintings function as trompe l'oeil in the round, as text works, found poetry, as constructed mini-narratives and as stand-ins for grand universal themes.

An exercise in scale, appropriation and repurposing - language is offered up as a material, occilating between the visual and the communicative.

Through the transformative properties of re-making, the found text and images mutate and become malleable to new meaning.

Handmade Readymade

(ready-made canvases, acrylic paint), 2005
various sizes

The first set in a series of ready-made canvases painted to look like objects that share the same dimensions. These replicas of everyday objects, things that someone might carry around in their bag, were created as a site specific piece for Anitra Hamilton’s Satchel Gallery.

Players, 2005

from the Handmade Readymade series
(ready-made canvases, acrylic paint)
lifesize

A series of ready-made canvases painted to look like objects that share the same dimensions.

Pink Pearl (For Kelly Mark), 2007

from the Handmade Readymade series
(Zippo Lighter, enamel paint)
2" x 1"

Lumber

from the Handmade Readymade series
(ready-made canvases, acrylic paint), 2007
various sizes

A series of ready-made canvases painted to look like objects that share the same dimensions.