These paintings follow a strict format of directly lit, emotionally
neutral faces, no make up, looking at the viewer and cropped
so that only eyes, nose and mouth fill the frame. The works are four
feet square and made of urethane foam on a substrate of
expanded styrene. All are painted with pigmented epoxy.
Although
they look like paintings, especially when photographed with a flash, |
I regard them as sculptures because the surfaces are very
dimensional.
In this aspect they are like reliefs but are unlike reliefs
in that the three dimensional shapes
of the surface have no correlation to the painted facial
features.
This is illustrated in the details of the McGee near the page bottom.
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