A Woman Four Times

oil, acrylic and ink on paper, 9" x 12" and smaller, 2009-2012

- matisse

- martin mcmurray

Bright Star, Bright Stripe

Homeland Security Advisory System

Designer Jeremy Scott (R) at an Adidas party at the Frank Sinatra estate, June 2012

Joanne Greenbaum at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Jan./Feb. 2012. Greenbaum designed the album art for Wilco's 2011 album The Whole Love.

Unknown image, perhaps associated with musician James Ferraro

Adidas advertisement featuring Sky Ferreira, Aug. 2012

Christopher Michlig at Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles, Oct. 2012

Gamblin Radiant Artist Oil Paints

Unknown image

Still from "Die Young,"  Ke$ha, Nov. 2012

Still from "As Long As You Love Me," Justin Bieber, Aug. 2012

J. Crew Neon-Stripe Skirt, Nov. 2012

Jenny Holzer, "Ribs," 2010

Still Life Color Studies

Bruna Massadas, Untitled (Rainbow Still Life), 2011. 

Bruna Massadas, Untitled (Rainbow Still Life), 2011.

Bruna Massadas, Untitled (Rainbow Still Life), 2011.

Bruna Massadas, Untitled (Rainbow Still Life), 2011.

Bruna Massadas, Untitled (Rainbow Still Life), 2011. 

Bruna Massadas, Untitled (Rainbow Still Life), 2011.

Bruna Massadas, Untitled (Rainbow Still Life), 2011.

Unrequited

Norman Bluhm and Frank O'Hara, "Meet Me in the Park," 1960, gouache on paper

Sam Francis, "Blue Balls," 1960, oil on canvas

Nancy Spero, "Artaud Painting -- All Writing Is Pigshit," 1969, left-handed writing and painting on paper.  Spero's series on notoriously misogynistic writer Antonin Artaud was a "forced collaboration"; Spero experienced a psychological connection with the writer despite feeling what she described as "his disapproval."

Studio Work

Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, Oil on canvas, 1911.

Philip Guston, The Studio, Oil on canvas, 1969.

Jasper Johns, Savarin Can with Brushes, Painted bronze, 1960.

Alice Neel, Self-Portrait, Oil on canvas, 1980.

Bruna Massadas, Katelyn Eichwald Painting, Charcoal on paper, 2012.

Leftovers

Unknown image of bomb; stained scrap of paper; photo of a peach found in the "face painters" folder on my computer desktop; chalk pastel palette found in my parents' basement; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Arthur's Tomb," 1860, watercolor on paper; oil paint palette.

Flowers After Flowers

Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1887. Oil on canvas, 17 X 24 inches. 

Photo of David Hockney's iPad paintings. (Credit: David Hockney).

Paul Cézanne, Vase of Flowers, 1880-1881. Oil on canvas, 18-1/2 x 21-3/4 in. (47.0 x 55.2 cm). The Norton Simon Foundation.

Odilon Redon, Vase of Flowers (After Cézanne), 1896. Oil on canvas, 18-1/4 x 21-3/4 in. (46.4 x 55.2 cm), Norton Simon Art Foundation, Gift of Mr. Neison Harris. 

Libby Black, Andy Warhol Book, 2012. Paper, Hot glue and acrylic paint, 14" x 13" x 7"

Sarah Thibault, Junkyard of False Starts, 2012. Oil, spray paint on canvas, 59 x 47 inches.

 www.libbyblack.com

www.sarahthibault.com

Hot Bodies

Dana Schutz, Frank on a Rock, oil on canvas, 2002. Schutz says, "I have been working on a group of paintings loosely hinged on the act of painting a fictional man from observation...the paintings are premised on the imaginary situation that the man and I are the last people on earth. The man is the last subject and the last audience and, because the man isn't making any paintings, I am the last painter."

Brooke Shields at age 10, photographed by Garry Gross in 1975 and rephotographed by Richard Prince in his 1993 work, "Spiritual America." The version seen here was found on the internet and has been further altered; someone has cropped the photo, changed the color, and added a black and green border. Shields has unsuccessfully fought to gain control over the photographs in this series for years. Courts have said both that Shields' career was built on her sexuality (and thus she has no reason to complain) and that the photographs are not sexual in nature: "They are pictures of a prepubescent girl posing innocently in the bath." Prince's version of the photograph was sold at Christie's in 1999 for $151,000.

The Shape of Things

1. A reality TV show

Promotional poster for Face Off, a reality-competition TV show featuring complete
 face/body transformations through prosthetics and make-up, 2011. 

2. A photograph I took in undergrad

Adair Stephens, Other no. 1, Gelatin silver print, 2008.

3. A recent painting

Bruna Massadas, Mother of All, Acrylic on canvas, 2012, 42 x 54 in.

4. A music video

Cropped still from the music video for "Rio" by Duran Duran, directed by Russell Mulcahy, 1982.

5. An older painting

Henri Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), Oil on canvas, 1905, 31 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.

6. A play and movie

Movie poster for The Shape of Things, a play (2001) and movie (2003)
written and directed by Neil LaBute in which a woman slowly and secretly
 "sculpts" a man by convincing him to alter his appearance and personality.

"I Need a Reason to Make a Pink Painting"

Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963. Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 182.9 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Bruna Massadas, Untitled, 2012. Acrylics on board, 18 X 24inches. 

David Hockney, Man In Shower in Beverly Hills, 1964. Acrylic on canvas, 65 1/2 x 65 1/2 in.

Jordan Kantor, Untitled (113577), 2011. Oil on canvas, 21 x 28 in.

Henri Matisse, The Pink Studio, 1911. Oil on canvas, 181 X 221 cm.