Rose Parade
Rose Parade source photo by Andy Millner, Pasadena, California
“So won’t you follow me down to the Rose Parade?”
Rose Parade continues my investigation into the relationship between art and nature, the natural and the made. Interested in expanding my subject matter, I made arrangements with a float building company in Pasadena to take pictures of floats as they were decorated for the 2012 New Year's Day parade. As with my previous work, I traced over the patterns of flowers from the photos on the computer and created a series of digital drawings. I was excited by the prospect of a "parade of paintings," a repeating, painted pattern like an EKG or Brancusi’s endless column that could go on forever. Constructing my paintings from squeezing tubes of paint rather than with a brush brought together interesting ideas of painting’s past, painting as drawing, and the paint standing in for a flower.
Polychrome Rose Parade (Detail)
“I was excited by the idea of creating a parade of paintings- making the same painting multiple times. Even though I drew it by hand, printing it more than once makes it machine made. It makes it so exact, I couldn’t of done that by hand. The idea is to return it back to something by hand with paint...”
Polychrome Rose Parade, 72” x 242”, pigment print, acrylic on linen, 2015
Yellow Rose Parade
Acrylic, pigment print on linen
70” x 52”
“All my work has been about the relationship between art and nature, the natural and the made.”
Red Rose Parade
2013
Acrylic, pigment print on linen
65” x 160”
