the two-sided puzzle paintings.
A number of puzzle paintings were made with plywood, acrylic paint, aluminum frames and glass or plexiglass on two sides. Each painting has one piece missing with one exception. That exception is the painting that is composed of all of the pieces missing from the other paintings.
Two of the pieces in the show were free hanging revolving sculptures. No frames.
I was listening to the radio a lot while I was making the pieces. I worked on them at an apartment on west 19th street, at what had become Gallery 24 on west 24th Street, on the roof of the gallery on west 24th street (particularly during warm sunny business hours of the day), and on Fire Island at a beach house friends and I rented for the summer and that I could not, as it turned out, afford. The names of the paintings are the names of songs I listened to throughout the process. I am a pushover for timeless and revelatory lyrics.
Emotionally indulgent?
Maybe.
True?
You bet.
These are the titles and owners of the pieces. A working list, anyway.
Honesty, James Jones
Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
Let the River Run
Angel, Yossi Milo
Change Is Come
Killing Me Softly, Steve Winnick
Don't You
I'll Be There
Ooh Child
Desperado, Rosalie Francica
Torn
So Far Away