This
is a sub-section of my 500+ "Covers" artworks created
from 2001 until 2023. These are paintings or drawings in oil, acrylic,
gouache, and ink on paper, canvas or board in various sizes, often not
far from letter size, but from half that up to a few feet /meters in
size. They recognizably utilize the structure of comic-book covers, or
Show-Card lettering posters, with title, bold lettering, price, date,
numbering, image and so on. They have been usually exhibited in groups, as installations and as "footnotes" to my large painting-installations.
This
group is one of man sub-sets within the whole group, each made for very
specific contexts and shows. This one is 'The History of Composition in
Art in Abstract Comic "Covers".' It was made for an exhibition of
abstract comics organized by artist, art historian and organizer Andrei
Molotiu, who we all pay homage to on this blog!, for a show in 2009-2010 in City University of New York James
Gallery titled "Silent Pictures. Special thanks to Andrei and to curator
Linda Norden who managed to find a spinner rack to display them in as I
prefer. The show was inspired by Molotiu's excellent anthology,
'Abstract Comics' (Fantagraphics Books, 2009). The whole series is meant to be seen as a sequence, and best in a Spinner rack.