SMALL FACES UNBOUND
SMALL FACES UNBOUND The title of this collection comes from the lyric in, The Byrds’ song, “Eight Miles High.” This ripe phrase evokes a range of fantastic imagery; uninhibited children, shrunken heads, unencumbered puppets and marvelous dismemberment to name a few things that popped into my head. Rather than discovering hidden faces or seeing them in inanimate objects (pareidolia), we focused on indelible visages—stark, psychological and philosophical—existential and mythological, some animal, some mysterious and some absurd. January 19-22, 2017. Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 1001. Additional show information: stevenspowers.com
SMALL FACES UNBOUND
The title of this collection comes from the lyric in, The Byrds’ song, “Eight Miles High.” This ripe phrase evokes a range of fantastic imagery; uninhibited children, shrunken heads, unencumbered puppets and marvelous dismemberment to name a few things that popped into my head.
Rather than discovering hidden faces or seeing them in inanimate objects (pareidolia), we focused on indelible visages—stark, psychological and philosophical—existential and mythological, some animal, some mysterious and some absurd.
January 19-22, 2017.
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 1001. Additional show information: stevenspowers.com
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Study for Monument For Gold Star Mothers<br />
Clyde Angel (1920-2006)<br />
Camanche, Iowa<br />
White paper bag, black and red ink, gold foil<br />
Circa: 1991<br />
Size: 15" (l) x 9" (w)<br />
Born Vernon Clyde Willits, “Angel” was a career welder<br />
in Camanche, Iowa. A World War II veteran, he was<br />
self-taught as an artist and applied his professional<br />
vocation to construct his found object sculpture.<br />
His son Skip Willits, wanting to promote his father’s<br />
work concocted a convoluted and unnecessary “crazy,<br />
homeless, struggling artist” story to make the work<br />
more “meaningful”—it was baloney and tainted on his<br />
father’s credible work.<br />
For more read: “The Made-Up Life and Real Death of<br />
Clyde Angel: The identity of a popular but mysterious outsider<br />
artist is revealed. Or so it seems.”<br />
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-made-up-lifeand-real-death-of-clyde-angel/Content?oid=1205382
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