"Covers" Nrs. 459a-472+ (The last of the series for now), 2001 until 2023
This
is the tenth post here documenting my 500+ "Covers" artworks created
from 2001 until 2023. These are paintings or drawings in oil, acrylic,
gouache, and ink on paper, canvas or board in various sizes, often not
far from letter size, but from half that up to a few feet /meters in
size. They recognizably utilize the structure of comic-book covers, or
Show-Card lettering posters, with title, bold lettering, price, date,
numbering, image and so on. They have been usually exhibited in groups, as installations and as "footnotes" to my large painting-installations.
I
began wishing to post one every couple days, thus the complete group
would take me years. I was too busy to do that, so as part of my
scanning of my archives in 2023 which have been donated to the
Kantonsbibliothek in Appenzell AR Switzerland, I decided to simply post
all 500-some in groups here in a small series of posts.
You
can get an idea of the sort of concerns, purposefully over-determined,
polysemic, multivalent planning, images, references, and word play that
went into each one by reading he first 36 posts here, or the comments on
my Facebook posts of the "Covers" works.(https://www.facebook.com/share/1PxS2QfphgenLbih/?) Many were made with textual
brainstorming in collaboration with author Daniel F. Ammann, or playing
on things I was reading, or things my wife said, and so on. Over the
years, I made a few numbering mistakes, but also did a few variations of
pieces, thus there are sometimes several with the same face-numbers, 1 –
500 and beyond.
This
group is a varied group, generally applying the "Cover" idea to installations and other works.