Etching: Lost In The 80's

This is a photoetching that was greatly manipulated to look like it didn't start as a photograph. Just about everything I could think of was put into it. There's deep etch, there's tape across the photo, burnishing of the light areas, etc. The original image was of a window at the old Monkey's Retreat (SohoZat) where they were selling wild 80's clothes with a mannequin with a mask. The detail shows a lot of variety of treatments. The frozen look of the mannequin made me think of how the 1980's was a frozen decade for young people. Jobs were few and low pay, rent was going up, but people would just wear wilder and wilder clothes

Etching: Coffeeshop Money

This is an etching done on two copperplates. The girl is done on a separate copperplate then cut-out and pasted on the background using the press. Different colors are brought in for the lips and eyes. The netting of the hat is from real netting that was pressed into the asphaltum then the acid etches the image.

Ode to Warhol

this was a Warholish litho print done about the time Andy Warhol passed away. Lithography is done on either large stones or aluminum plates and drawn in reverse before printed on a press (thus, "old fashion vegetable soup" is backwards)

Surrealistic painting with Car

2 ft x 3 ft surrealistic painting featuring car with popcorn traveling down road and purple cubes falling from sky. not sure what it all means.

Nick Cave at Schoolkids Records

Barry Adamson (background left) and Nick Cave (foreground) photographed at Schoolkids Records in 1980's made into three-tone lithographic print 1ft x 2 ft. Actual autograph "Sir Nicholas Cave" printed on lower right.

SELF Portrait

This is a woodcut self-portrait back when I had a mustache and was into the artists of Vienna from 100 years ago. I remember this being influenced by Egon Shiele. The image was done live from a fun-house mirror made from Chrome Mylar. My woodcut tools were stolen shortly afterwards when I took a trip to St. Louis, so the image is kind of appropriate.

Remembering 9 11

This is a photo of the World Trade Center from a junk sculpture park in the Lower East Side of New York, back before gentrification. Click on picture for larger size