Jason & Marc.

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité!!

I'm about to take down I show I installed last month in Washington, DC. Artomatic is a yearly art event featuring multi-media work typically displayed in a huge raw space. It embraces art as a community, rejecting any type of social segmentation, or high society art culture. Anyone can participate, and no commission is taken from the artist. It's a complete anti-Chelsea model. While this results in exciting possibilities for artistic expression, the lack of curation can leave a viewer somewhat lost and confused when aimlessly navigating through 10 floors of random work. The key is patience, and a hand-held fan. (Strategically placed bars on certain nights also aid in the process.)

This year, the venue was a newly constructed, unfinished, office building on First Street, NE. I chose to embrace the salon-style ambiance, and use my 11 feet of drywall to the fullest. I included both paintings and photography. No frames, no fuss.

My 4 photographs are composite images of dolls from different ethnic backgrounds that mimic my own. They're digital c-prints that I had done at printspace and I couldn't have been more pleased with the result. The portraits are acrylic on canvas and are derived from my photography. The layout shown is to scale with the largest photograph sized at 30x60".