Painters
I often refer to books as performances pieces - small and intimate but still performances.
Books are time-based media. They are visual and conceptual, but they can only truly be experienced through time.
Books are time-based media. They are visual and conceptual, but they can only truly be experienced through time.
making the book
This book began as five acrylic paintings that were painted as collaborations between me and Brian Baugh..
We were living in Scotland, and we painted these pieces in our small apartment in Perth. While we could have unstretched the canvases and rolled them for travel, I decided to reformat them into a single, holdable (and packable) form. When I displayed this finished book at a Goddard College MFA-IA Student Exhibition in the spring of 2013, the main comments I received related to the very unusual experience of holding and touching paintings.
Here are the five paintings before they were dismantled, and several steps of the process of creating the book.
For the cover, Brian disassembled a used "Victorian Painters" book, and I modified and recovered it.
We were living in Scotland, and we painted these pieces in our small apartment in Perth. While we could have unstretched the canvases and rolled them for travel, I decided to reformat them into a single, holdable (and packable) form. When I displayed this finished book at a Goddard College MFA-IA Student Exhibition in the spring of 2013, the main comments I received related to the very unusual experience of holding and touching paintings.
Here are the five paintings before they were dismantled, and several steps of the process of creating the book.
For the cover, Brian disassembled a used "Victorian Painters" book, and I modified and recovered it.
Brian and I later collaborated on a second piece titled Painters II.