Support Groups? 2023 (SOLD)

Collage on off-white Rivoli paper backed with foam board. A photograph of six Danish Modern chairs becomes a motif in the three upcoming works. The chairs “represent the support groups where I needed to get help but always resisted going out of a combination of fear - not wanting to be seen, not wanting to be vulnerable in front of others, not wanting to feel - but also a lack of humility, an arrogance that desperately wants me to do it all on own, which also comes from fear of asking others for help.” There are photographs printed in both black and white and color printed on acetate. Upstairs the black and white chairs carry small stickers from the John Derian sticker book, stickers are used in the bottom half, partially painted in white acrylic. Two stickers have cuttings of babies eyes from the book called BABY, the third sticker is laid over an image of a shocked actor’s face. The actor has another sticker (originally of a leaf) painted black and bringing her into the the central image: a photograph of a stage play found in the book DRAMA (third edition), the photo is uncredited but like the other images it contains chairs in a circle around one large red velvet thrown, suggesting a cult group meeting. Perhaps the artist is expressing a common fear people have about 12 step programs,

9 x 6 inches unframed