Bedsheet Painting

2008-07-17 08:13:34

Michael Wyshock
Dream Work

Bedsheet Paintings: Dream Work/Night Moves
Thirty Paintings, 58" x 62"
acrylic, enamel, latex, and tempera on cotton polyester bedsheeting.


Color pushes and pulls pictorial space in the works, creating actual and faux textures. The viewer is invited to make comparisons of color combinations and their application and placement within the composition. Color reflects my physical and mental encounters--quotidian perceptions during daylight hours, the contemplation of dreams, or remembered activities. Scarlet clothing over Colgate Blue pulling out the Purple Saurus Rex snowcone from the afternoon.

The composition depends on a layering of information, rather than design--meshing properties of paint within the content. Images are layered over and under one another with subliminal references to different locales, geography, or identities, and the restless thought and action of insomnia and somnambulism. Distorted and sometimes lost imagery within each layer is encapsulated in the works, sealing nocturnal memories, imagined and real.

Themselves a product of nightwork, the works emerge in conception and material from lucubrations: the nocturnal activities of contemplation, dreaming, sex, and sleep, tracing a range of lived movement across a consistent surface. Emotion and temporality are joined--as in a page from an album, a journal entry, a mirror, or a window--through the potentials of paint as an expressive vehicle.

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