What Does It All Mean? Flippers, Markets, Deals is a group of paintings from the Current Affairs series, including portraits from each individual listed in Kenny Schachter’s ARTNEWS article “Killed Deals, Crashing Markets, Flailing Flippers: What Does It All Mean? Kenny Schachter on the Summer Past and the Season Ahead” published on September 8, 2015 at 1:00pm.
(All reference photos are sourced exclusively from Facebook)
Each small portraits is attached to the larger text painting where the subject's name is listed in the article.
Complete set of 18 portraits in the series plus the large text painting, dimensions variable.
What Does It All Mean? Flippers, Markets, Deals
2015
Small portraits are either 5 x 7 inches or 6 x 6 inches.
Large text painting is 60W x 48H inches.
A series of oil paintings inspired by individuals' postings on their Facebook profiles. These portraits are created from a selection of pictures found on each subject's Facebook page and then reproduced with slight alterations in composition by the artist. Each selected subject is someone working directly or indirectly with the art world as an artist, a curator, a gallery owner, a critic, a collector or affiliate of an arts organization or museum.
The subjects are unaware that they have been selected by the artist for this portraiture.
2014
Oil on panel
4 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Ayn S Choi)
2014
Oil on panel
7 x 5 inches
(Original reference photo by ETSU Mary B. Martin School of the Arts.)
2014
Oil on panel
6 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Catherine Howe > Jerry Saltz)
2014
Oil on panel
6 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Helen Toomer.)
2014
Oil on panel
4 x 4 inches
(Original reference photo by Helen Toomer.)
2014
Oil on panel
4 x 6 inches
Original reference photo by Blue Curry.)
2014
Oil on panel
6 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Helen Toomer.)
2014
Oil on panel
4 x 4 inches
(Original reference photo by Helen Toomer)
2014
Oil on panel
4 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Toomer Labzda.)
2014
Oil on panel
6 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Kathy Grayson.)
2013
Oil on panel
4 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Kathy Grayson.)
2013
Oil on panel
4 x 4 inches
(Original reference photo by Kathy Grayson.)
2013
Oil on panel
4 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Kathy Grayson.)
2013
Oil on panel
4 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Kathy Grayson.)
2014
Oil on panel
6 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Jason Malihan.)
2014
Oil on panel
4 x 6 inches
(Original reference photo by Elodi Dielubanza.)
2014
Oil on panel
6 x 4 inches
(Original reference photo by Heidi Hahn.)