Cell Phone Tower House, 2006 - 125. These aren't really her dream houses, but houses she has imagined. Visionary McMansions. This one is at the top of a lopped-off mountain.
I like the watercolors with ink drawing and text, kind of like Blake.
Viagra Mansion, 2005 - 115. Follies.
Siamese Twins House, 2006 - 75.
Artist's Statement - "My images are of domestic buildings (mansions) and other urban sites in which enormous scale and various grand themes greatly outsize the human beings who inhabit or use them. I feel my pictures are in a tradition of poetic, visionary architecture though in the case of this particular body of work, megalomania and irreverence stampede through it at breathtaking speed. If anyone would like to make a workable plan from any of these doodles of mine, then be my guest; I’m curious what you’d come up with. This show is dedicated to all the people of America who literally want a ‘castle’ rather than a home: a building to overwhelm the rest of the neighborhood creating either intense envy or debilitating nausea."
I kind of like the fact that McMansion has become a word. I feel like I hear it all over the place nowadays....oh and yes, those drawings are lovely.
ReplyDeleteI like the perspective of the Viagra Mansion, it reminds me of some of Gary Stephan's work. The Medeival flattened landscape always works for me.
ReplyDeleteNice job working-in Chippenham Parkway at Parham into the top piece, that's an indesputable reference if I ever saw one.
These pieces remind me of the stuff we drew on our high notebooks when we were bored and looking for escape,
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