Crawling Troll
2016
PVC, foam, Sculptamold, PCL plastic, amethyst, tiger’s eye, gold necklace and charm
Exhibition
cynics milk
Installation views
Works
Pan’s Anthem (faux panacea)
2016
Acrylic, rubber, inkjet transfer on linen
30 × 22 in.
Divine Eye
2016
Acrylic on felt
62 × 46 in.
Woman on the Shore (allegory for psychic retreat)
2016
Acrylic and felt on linen
47 × 63 in.
Aging 11
2016
Acrylic, graphite, carbon, mica, on linen hybrid
54 × 46 in.
Aging 12
2016
Acrylic, graphite, carbon, mica, on linen hybrid
54 × 46 in.
Our Departure (allegory for financial collapse)
2016
Acrylic, pumice, rubber on canvas
64 × 104 in.
Worm Rose
2016
Acrylic on Dibond in maple artist frame
16 × 12 in.
Worm Rose (2)
2016
Acrylic on Dibond in maple artist frame
16 × 12 in.
cynics milk brings brutality and sweetness into the same visual field. The exhibition moves between nihilism and sentimentality without treating them as opposites, allowing tenderness, violence, humor, and estrangement to coexist within a single image or object.
The autobiographical Aging paintings approach the self as a changing material record. Elsewhere, found photographs are translated into allegorical and genre-like scenes whose familiar structures remain psychologically unstable. Crawling Troll, the exhibition’s sole sculpture, gives this instability a bodily form: abject and embellished, vulnerable and confrontational.
Throughout the exhibition, looking becomes reciprocal. Images and figures do not simply submit to observation; they return it, shifting the viewer from detached witness to implicated subject.
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Photography copyright and courtesy of the artist and David Shelton, Houston.