The Shadows and Shades of Famous Persons
Famous Shadows and Shades at Bosque Gallery.
Shadow of David Duchovny. Oil on Canvas. 18.5x35 inches. 2021.
Study: Shadow of Amy Winehouse. Digital. 2021.
The Black Shadow/Cher. Oil on canvas. 73 x 55 inches. 2017-2021.
Shadow of Dan Aykroyd. Oil on canvas. 15.5x20 inches. 2021.
Study: The Shadow of Harvey Weinstein. Digital.
Shadow of Miley Cyrus. Oil on Canvas. 21x29 inches. 2021
Study: Shadow of Lindsay Lohan. Digital. 2021.
The Cringe/Steve Carell. Acrylic on canvas. 32x10.5 inches. 2021.
Shadow of Hugh Grant. Oil on canvas. 17.5x40 inches. 2021.
The Crossing / William S. Burroughs & Benecio del Toro. Drypoint engraving. One edition of 5 prints. 4 x 6 inches. 2017.
Wall-Bound / Kevin Spacey. Drypoint. 6x8 inches. 2017.
Bound to a Wall / Kevin Spacey. Chalk pastel on paper. 19 x 25 inches. 2017.
Study: The Shadow of Scarlett Johansson
Study: The Black Shadow/Cher. Chalk pastel on paper. 25 x 19 inches. 2017.
La Danse / Stromae. Drypoint. 4x6 inches. 2017.
Study: Singularity / Blondie. Conte and chalk on paper. 25 x 19 inches. 2017.
Celebrities began as ghosts — disembodied voices transmitted through air, voiceless flickering spectres projected in darkness, contractually bound to Hollywood and record companies.
Eventually they became icons, their images repeated so often that they began to feel as if they meant something. No longer just objects of admiration, they were ideal figures — to be modelled, to be identified with.
Now, celebrities only take form in the public light. As shades and shadows, they are multitudinous, god-like in their unknowability, and transient, appearing in palpably negative forms. They are hyperreal, replaceable, homogeneous, and edited.
At the sacrificial altar of fame, they offer up identity in exchange for a rebirth as a fictive persona. Dissociated from real existence, in time they are absolutely forgotten as they recede from public consciousness to pure image to less than nothing.