CONSTRUCTION / DECONSTRUCTION
2010
Oil on canvas
26 x 17 inches (66 x 43 cm)
Based on a cover of Reconstructing Modernism: Art in New York, Paris and Montreal (The MIT Press, 1990) featuring Cecil Beaton’s photo of a model in front of a Jackson Pollock’s painting for American Fashion: The New Soft Look (Vogue, 1951)
THE NEW HARD LOOK
2019
Archival inkjet print, acrylic and plywood
6 x 6 ½ x ½ inches (16 x 17 x 1 cm)
Reproduction of Anna Ostoya’s painting Construction/Deconstruction (2010), derived from a Cecil Beaton photo of a model in front of a Jackson Pollock painting for American Fashion: The New Soft Look (Vogue 1951) / Reproductions of Ostoya’s painting Reconstruction/Construction (2010), derived from an advertisement in Time Out for an exhibition by the artist Carissa Rodriguez in New York in 2010, in which Rodriguez used herself as a model
UNTITLED (SCROLL)
2019
Archival inkjet print, acrylic and plywood
5 x 18 x 2/5 inches (13 x 46 x 1 cm)
Based on works from Autopis. Notes, Copies and Masterpieces, 2009 – 2019, a series of twenty-six photomontages and objects composed mainly in a pseudomorphic method of pairing visually similar images from different contexts
RADICAL PSEUDOMORPHISM
2010
Archival inkjet print, acrylic and plywood
6 ¼ x 8 x 4 inches (16 x 21 x 10 cm)
Polish painter Wilhelm Sasna wearing charcoal makeup in an advertisement for the fashion designer Marc Jacobs (2006) / Portrait of the Russian artist Natalia Goncharova, who wore eccentric makeup in public spaces as a provocation (1910)
FEMALE PSEUDOMORPHISM I
2010
Archival inkjet print, acrylic and MDF
5 x 14 ½ x 3 ½ inches (13 x 37 x 9 cm)
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994), editor and fashion icon, wife of US President John F. Kennedy; and Nina Andrycz (1915–2014), actress and fashion icon, wife of Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland / Brigitte Bardot (1934–), French actress, singer, sex symbol and animal- rights activist; and Kalina Jedrusik (1931–1991), Polish actress, singer, sex symbol and cat lover / Eva Hesse (1936–1970), German-born US artist who fled the Nazis as a child, known for her sculptures in synthetic materials, died from a tumor; and Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973), Polish artist who survived Nazi concentration camps, known for her sculptures in synthetic materials, died from a tumor
ADAD GOOD SPIRITS
2010
Archival inkjet print, MDF, acrylic and paper cup
12 x 8 ½ x 16 inches (30 x 22 x 16 cm)
Series: Autopis. Notes, Copies and Masterpieces, 2009 – 2019, twenty-six photomontages and objects composed mainly in a pseudomorphic method of pairing visually similar images from different contexts
COPY ERRORS
2010
Photocopy, acrylic and publication Galeria Foksal 1966-1994 framed
12 x 23 ½ x ¾ inches (30 x 60 x 2 cm)
Series: Autopis. Notes, Copies and Masterpieces, 2009 – 2019, twenty-six photomontages and objects composed mainly in a pseudomorphic method of pairing visually similar images from different contexts
PRIMARY STRUCTURE WITH A PLANT (THE PLANT AS A METAPHOR IN GEORGE ORWELL AND OTHER CONTEXTS)
2010
Pot plan, MDF, acrylic and electric mechanism
64 x 21 ½ x 13 ¾ inches (162 × 55 × 35 cm)