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This group of paintings examines the representation of Jews in the Diaspora. The images are gathered from contemporary media sources and selected for their iconic quality. The uniform size, composition, and subject of the paintings in 48 Jews suggest a canon, Warhol’s Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980) or Gerhard Richter's 48 Portraits. 48 Jews, however, continually repaints, adds, and discards individuals, preventing closure or completeness. The individuality of each subject is affirmed with stylistic inconsistency, challenging their status as members of a coherent group and engaging the debate over the facts and myths of Jewish identity. |
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New Series of Anne Franks. Taking one painting out of the Jews and extending it. This re-interprets all the jews by exploding the notion of representation within an individual painting. Continually painting a single subject further develops the ever changing aspect of identity.
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This series examines the connection between the American heroic and celebrity. These 39 portrait paintings explore a notion of the abject in celebrity. They point to our cultural obsession with beauty and how what is hot often coincides with an alien grotesqueness. Like ’48 Jews’, the uniform size and subject of the paintings in The Great Americans suggest a canon, Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party (1974-1979)
This series began from a Discovery Channel documentary which asked America to vote for the greatest American. America voted and in the top ten Oprah Winfrey ranked higher than Jonas Salk. The Great Americans explores the perverse nature of championing a talk show host above the inventor of the polio vaccine. |
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New Collages and works on Paper
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