The WHITE LEVIS SELF PORTRAITS, a series of collagraphs, were created during the mid-1970s and revived in 2017-2018. All printmaking works are unique monoprints with mixed media elements. The photographic works are open edition dye-based ink giclée prints. The diptych photo series was conceived in two parts. The first image in each pair was recorded in Europe during the Summer of 2006 and the seco
nd image was recorded in the North St. Louis, Park St. Louis, and Old North neighborhoods during 2010-2014. Later, images were paired and diptychs created in 2016. The 2017 series of monoprints reflected and were informed by the earlier photographic concepts. More on the diptychs: St. Louis architecture in decay is contrasted with the progressive contemporary architecture of Paris, Basel, and Strasbourg. Rather than social commentary, formal elements, color, texture, and composition create a compare and contrast dialogue between images in diptych format. Subsequent photographs:
- explore the complexities of construction at large-scale building sites,
- contemplate still-life images compositions,
- record visual effects achieved by modern structural elements, glass, reflections,
transparency (real and phenomenal) and occasionally combine elements from
disparate images to create more complex and impossible spaces. The vocabulary of images developed in the photographic portfolio is alternately reinterpreted through traditional and experimental monoprint media and techniques including intaglio, woodcut, collagraphy, pronto print, and chine-collé. I am very pleased to present this growing body of work. Check this page periodically for new expressions on this discourse on art and architecture in photos, monoprints soon and to come - video.
