It must be tax time...

...which would explain a certain lack of postings here, lately. And guess what: I just hit "send" on my eFiling and within mere minutes I logged into blogger to bring the world news of new art. Now isn't that something?

Ok, you can all stop applauding and cheering now.

Here is some art I did sort of in a rushed late night session this past week. Works San Jose had its grand re-opening on Friday (for more info see http://www.workssanjose.org/)and for that occasion members were asked to contribute to a large collaborative art thing/happening/event/doodad for lack of a better word. Essentially, everybody creates art on 16x16 flat panels (cardboard, typically) that can be hung from two nails. 4 of these go on top of each other and the top one represents head and shoulders, the one below the torso, the next the midsection and the bottom part the feet of some figure representing the diverse membership of Works. It doesn't have to be figural but can be abstract, metaphorical etc etc.

There is not much more guidance and planning beyond what I just wrote, which is the beauty of it. Intereresting combinations of art are bound to emerge from that. And the whole goal of that? Create a ton of these and all of them will eventually be auctioned off on eBay as fund-raiser for Works! They come in full body sets (4 panels).

So for this I sat down and made 2 panels on plexiglass. Both of them were painted in a way, that you can look at them from either side. One of them is a smiley the other is a George (as I happened to have a dollar bill at hand, which is gone now that I paid my taxes, by the way). They are both painted only on one side! So there are 3 layers of paint on them, one of them a separator layer between the images. In the case of George, the face is done in a vaguely pointilist style so you can actually see right through him. The tag line for that one could go like this "this is george - you can see right through him. On the one side he is all about money, on the other side he is all about flags" ;)

The smiley face doesn't have such a deliberate / fun message. Essentially a happy smiley on one side (but a bit fuzzy because I used textured plexi). On the other side he is not quite so happy looking, but less fuzzy (can't have everything in this world, I guess).

Well, there we go.