I quickly constructed three collages from items found in the recycling bin at my office and pinned them inside my cubicle. I notice that the broken images of perception seems to induce a bit of confusion and caution in my habitually negative and sometimes rude co-workers as they approach my workstation. Their requests become a bit less demanding; bad moods soften and more genuine interactions occur. Although I witness curious co-workers sometimes averting their attention to the cheap media of arts and crafts cut and paste, no one has commented.
Special T Delivery Website
Special T Delivery Website updated 06|2011
sutter nails
Sutter Nails website now live.
orange sweater
1955 | oil on canvas
Elmer Bischoff 1916 – 1991
Photograph from: SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA May, 2010
Elmer Bischoff depicts two figures in what appears to be a public setting, perhaps a library; both facing the viewer. Figure one, more at the foreground (with the orange sweater) is sitting at a table, with arms folded and head lowered and appears to be focused on reading. Figure two, more in the background to the viewer’s right, (and figure one’s left) is unclear whether the figure is sitting, or standing at a counter.
yellow lampshade
1969 | oil on canvas | 70 x 80 inches
Elmer Bischoff 1916 – 1991
Photograph from: de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA November, 2009
Elmer Bischoff mixes warm and rich expressionistic colors with two figures to create a beautiful and modern composition inside an American domestic scene. He invites us to look out over a modern city skyline through three large panoramic windows from an apartment, and much more.
prop D
On Tuesday, November 3, 2009, the people in San Francisco City and County voted on Proposition D; a proposition that would create a new special district and allow general advertising signs in the Mid-Market Street are between 5th and 7th Streets. Proceeds would go into funding youth arts and culture education, along with building and operating a ticket booth at (Market and Powell Streets) for sale of tickets to art, entertainment and cultural venues.
Anne, Viscountess, Afterwards Marchioness of Townsend
circa 1780 oil on canvas
Sir Joshua Reynolds, English, 1723 – 1792
95 x 58 (241.3 x 147.3 cm)
Neoclassical, Portrait and Grand Manner
Photograph from: The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA September 2009
Joshua Reynolds, (1) a renowned English portrait painter uses the “Grand Manner” (2) portraiture style; a style in which gives larger than life impressions of the portrayed and the style in which he helped develop. The showing of idealized and elite status is done through invention, such as adding classical associations, altering body proportions and lowering horizon lines. Anne Montgomery, a Viscountess, daughter of an Irish parliament member and wife to George, the 4th Viscount Townsend is portrayed.
artist and writer Karl Roeseler
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