Self-Portrait
2017
OSB wood, paint
6.5' x 6.5' x 3/4"
Self-Portrait which began as quick, gestural cartoons in my sketchbook is displayed here at a massively blown up scale. In doing this I am asserting that these unfiltered impulses have the same artistic weight as any other piece that is shown in a gallery. They emphasize the spontaneous moment in which an idea makes the move from the mind into physical existence, and the joys of art-making.
charley friedman, copyright