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This life size man-child was reductively carved from insulation foam, and coated in paint and graphite. This prototype is displayed on the wall but is also shown in floor spaces. This piece follows a painting from 2007 and is concerned with the ambiguity of this gesture of the arms and hands outstretched. It remains untitled but I hope that this sculpture be interpreted and experienced on multiple levels by suggesting three possibilities for its interpretation: Orant, Protest, Celebration. The material weight in contrast to its material presence also points to this ambiguity of interpretation.

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Devening Projects + Editions: “Paper Love”, gallery view.

Links:

Jason Conny’s Flikr images of the show: here.

Chicago Reader Pool Flikr images: here.

Devening Projects + Editions Home Page: here.

Chicago Tribune Article about Devening Projects: here.

Detail of Untitled

Good Hunting Blue Sky, Part 1.

Good Hunting Blue Sky, Part 2.

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All 20 Portraits.

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This was one panel of dyptich. The second panel was a portrait of Oprah Winfrey, no image of is available.

This painting was destroyed by cleaning staff at Calvin College, this is the only image I have of the painting in an only partially complete state.