Tag: evaporation

A Dry Heat vitrine, progress shots

During the Jim Public’s Truck exhibition A Dry Heat I wished I had some visual aids while I discussed the process of making these paintings. Here, at last, are the photos I took last summer when I went back to Las Vegas and retrieved the glass vitrine, from which I had not yet removed the paintings.

The water had evaporated, leaving behind the acrylic paint from the different solutions I had mixed for each painting. Click here to see the resulting artwork.

Jim Public, A Dry Heat vitrine, progress shot 1 Jim Public, A Dry Heat vitrine, progress shot 2 Jim Public, A Dry Heat vitrine, progress shot 3

A Dry Heat paintings

Now that I am preparing for the next Jim Public’s Truck exhibition, it is time to post images of the nine paintings that make up the series I showed last month.

The paintings that comprise A Dry Heat are plexiglass panels that I put in watertight vessels full of acrylic paint and water. Before submerging each panel in paint and leaving it in Las Vegas for two years to evaporate fully, I did some mark-making in the white, gessoed underlayer, so each painting has words, pictures, or impressions beneath the color and design left behind by nature’s patient hand.

A Dry Heat, The World, 2012, Jim Public A Dry Heat, SONEV, 2012, Jim Public A Dry Heat, One More, 2012, Jim Public A Dry Heat, Obselete Questions, 2012, Jim Public A Dry Heat, Love And, 2012, Jim Public A Dry Heat, I'm Sorry, 2012, Jim Public A Dry Heat, Hands Feet, 2012, Jim Public A Dry Heat, Forever In, 2012, Jim Public A Dry Heat, Dam, 2012, Jim Public Jim Public, A Dry Heat vitrine, progress shot 3 Jim Public, A Dry Heat vitrine, progress shot 2 Jim Public, A Dry Heat vitrine, progress shot 1 Jim Public's Truck, A Dry Heat, DADA Fall Gallery Walk, Dallas, TX, September 22, 2012 Jim Public's Truck, Dallas Design District, A Dry Heat Jim Public, A Dry Heat poster 120823