While some of Powers» work sees the artist acting as a deft conductor of art historical moments set on a stage of the artist's making, another concurrent body of work sees the artist
painting quotidian scenes that depict the places and people that surround the artist: most notably his wife and new baby, and the garden that lies out the door of their San Francisco apartment.
Not exact matches
Selecting common hand saws, shovels, axes, baking pans, and cake servers,
quotidian objects that are assigned along gender lines of domestic work and construction work are
painted with titillating
scenes of women frolicking about in a lake, or simply posing in nature.
Often categorized as a New York Pop artist, Thiebaud does not identify himself as such, having begun his
paintings of
quotidian American
scenes in the mid 1950's well before the explosion of Pop art.
In their depictions of
quotidian scenes, Larsen's
paintings emphasize the way visual and narrative hierarchies are conjoined or interrupted.
Clements captures alternately
quotidian and filmic
scenes of fragmented tableaus and narratives, perspectival disruptions, and the passage of time by
painting her immediate surroundings and architectural interiors from films.