Suburban home life : tracking the American Dream

Whitney Museum 1989 Show Suburban Home Life: Tracking the American Dream

A list of artists in exhibition all examining different aspects of suburbia.
I found Eric Fischl's work most intriguing with psychological aspects that come within the nuclear family unit of suburbia.
Diane Arbus
Dan Graham
Jeff Koons
Bill Owens
Laurie Simmons

Some New Readings

By Barbara Steiner and Jun Yang

 Artists exploring the autobiography and self-representation from media, social systems, and ethical ideals on self-identity. Artists creating stories of self-representation. I especially found interesting was Boltanski's 1970s fabricated narrative work. Jun Yang's hybrids of his childhood memories of mental and media images that influenced his identity.

New Painting

66x47 Acrylic on Canvas

New Work

66x47 Acrylic on Canvas

66x47 Acrylic on Canvas

Current Progress

Possible hybrid images for paintings

                                     

                                                            66x47 Acrylic on Canvas

The Lives of Others

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36x48 acrylic

42x42 acrylic and oil

Paintings of fabrications of amateur snapshots from 1900s-1960s

Further exploring the back of the snapshot creating a diptych painting, rather than the text with the figure

Color palette of snapshot photographs and further clarifying in the paintings

 

 

52"x42" acrylic and oil,
Paintings of narratives between the actual experience and distortion of a memory 
Text for each individual painting in progress