Description
This Second lithograph print done at Tamarind Institute: Untitled (Feel Licks Coffee & Cigarettes) is derived from a dozen vintage comic book advertisements from the 1960’s and 1970’s to create the background. The paper stock, Newsprint grey Somerset velvet was chosen to mimic pulp fiction quality, and the eyes hold the surreal animal face of a sheep that is superimposed. Some of the cigarette filters were left black, some with no color and a few with the natural tan filter hue. Available from The Novado Gallery
When I am using the Feel Licks cat structure, I collaged and collided images of falling cigarettes and coffee to give a sense of uncertainty to hold an unsettling feeling in the action.
The artist Dana Schutz had an exhibition at Petzel gallery in NYC. In one painting on display, she depicts a woman trying to catch falling objects and holding up a wall in an earthquake, almost trying to stick her finger in the dyke of a dam perhaps to stop life from catastrophe. My work Untitled (Feel Licks Coffee & Cigarettes) was in part inspired by her painting mentioned above, which helped inform the theme around …Feel Licks Coffee & Cigarettes.
This work also has a nod to R.Crumb and Raymond Pettibon in a character driven ideal. The invention of my Feel Licks style, was the base in the limited edition lithographs that were also curated be Anne Slattery of Tamarind. She exhibited them in the No Modifiers exhibition and Tamarind Institute finally archived the edition lithographs into the museum of New Mexico.
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