My DEVANDALIZING series repurposes and re-contextualizes stickers, graffiti tags, signaling tape, and similar fragments that "vandalize" the streets of New York and of other cities around the world.
For over ten years now, I have been collecting - "devandalizing" - these artifacts of the urban environment as the source material for my collages and paintings on canvas and other materials.
Applied in a chaotic, semi-random, or determined way, these artworks reflect and feedback on the evolving phenomenon of urban visual expression.
The stickers were collected from the streets of cities such as Detroit, Las Vegas, Québec, Montréal, Palermo, Catania, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, Havana, and, of course, Berlin and New York.
For over ten years now, I have been collecting - "devandalizing" - these artifacts of the urban environment as the source material for my collages and paintings on canvas and other materials.
Applied in a chaotic, semi-random, or determined way, these artworks reflect and feedback on the evolving phenomenon of urban visual expression.
The stickers were collected from the streets of cities such as Detroit, Las Vegas, Québec, Montréal, Palermo, Catania, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, Havana, and, of course, Berlin and New York.
DEVANDALIZING
FOUR HAPPY URBAN SHAPES (All Together)
2017
Stickers and signaling tape from NYC on canvas
2017
Stickers and signaling tape from NYC on canvas
3 panels each 48” x 48”, 122 x 122 cm
12 panels each 20” x 20”, 50 x 50 cm
Arrangement variable
See also: FOUR HAPPY URBAN SHAPES explained
12 panels each 20” x 20”, 50 x 50 cm
Arrangement variable
See also: FOUR HAPPY URBAN SHAPES explained
FOUR HAPPY URBAN SHAPES (Outlined)
2017
Sticker fragments and signaling tape from NY, acrylic paint on canvas
48" x 48", 122 x 122 cm
2017
Sticker fragments and signaling tape from NY, acrylic paint on canvas
48" x 48", 122 x 122 cm
See also: FOUR HAPPY URBAN SHAPES explained
BROADWAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (Tag Style)
2014
Stickers from NYC on canvas
Triptych, each panel 48" x 48", 122 x 122 cm
2014
Stickers from NYC on canvas
Triptych, each panel 48" x 48", 122 x 122 cm
Each panel in this triptych features parts of the same tag/sticker in the same position, and if you sandwiched all three panels, each tag/sticker would be complete again. The overlapped pieces of stickers from the middle panel, which would otherwise be hidden, can be seen on the left panel; the circular cutouts on the right panel.
LES NYC
2016
Stickers from NYC on canvas
Triptych, each panel 20" x 20", 50 x 50 cm
2016
Stickers from NYC on canvas
Triptych, each panel 20" x 20", 50 x 50 cm
Each panel in this triptych features parts of the same tag/sticker in the same position, and if you sandwiched all three panels, each tag/sticker would be complete again. The overlapped pieces of stickers from the middle panel, which would otherwise be hidden, can be seen on the left panel; the circular cutouts on the right panel.
H. F.; Amsterdam
H. F.; Amsterdam
25 BLACK DOTS (Because There Are 25 White Dots)
2021
Stickers from NYC on canvas
Diptych, each panel 30" x 30", 76 x 76 cm
2021
Stickers from NYC on canvas
Diptych, each panel 30" x 30", 76 x 76 cm
The circular cutouts of the right panel in this diptych come from tags/stickers in the same position in the left panel, and if you sandwiched the two panels, each tag/sticker would be complete again.
TAG TARGET
2011
Stickers from NYC and signaling tape on canvas
48" x 48", 122 x 122 cm
2011
Stickers from NYC and signaling tape on canvas
48" x 48", 122 x 122 cm