Woven Paintings

“Brooklyn: An Art Community”

Inspired by the irony of the “art community” where a supportive, nurturing environment is supposed to exist within a fiercely competitive world of Art, these works mingle the complex issues of gentrification, community and race with that of the marketability of an artistic environment.

The works are created from cuttings and scraps of about 12-18 different paintings.  Each piece is named after a different neighborhood of Brooklyn and generally represents the ethnic make up of that community in this moment in time.   True to the ethnic make up of Brooklyn, no one piece is made of entirely one canvas, and the interwoven structure of the scraps of paintings would collapse with out the support of the others.  The flatter format of the work in itself more “marketable” as an Artwork and as a neighborhood deemed “artistic.”

Originals and digital prints are available on ArtSlant.

The installation Come Undone is made in the same manner as these works and was created with the idea of being able to exhibit alongside these works.