this body of work was derived from a series of travel postcards that the painter fredrick hammersley had gathered in the early 1940’s while on military duty in europe. a few years before his death, he gave a stack of these postcards to curator rebecca mcgrew, and when she showed them to me, i was instantly smitten – not only because of my love of old printed things, but the fact that a painter whose work i loved, was attracted to these images as visuals (and potentially sources of visual information). so i asked rebecca if i could borrow the postcards, so i could spend some time with them, and i ended up making a small body of work – 20 paintings – each 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, the same size as the postcards. you can read a longer statement from the catalog of this exhibition here.
paintings (for frederick hammersley)
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l’arcade
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
au pont
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
blanche
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
escalier
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
jean d’arc
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
metier
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
moorland
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
pergola
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
sarcophage
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
tenuta
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″ -
transboarding
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universelle
2010
oil on linen
3.5″ x 5.5″
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