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Diptych SSC

"Synthetic Synthetic Cubism"? Yeah, it's a misnomer--Synthetic Cubism was basically late, illustrational Cubism but this current work I'm doing has more in common with the early, incomprehensible Analytical phase. The director of a nonprofit gallery that only shows overtly political work visited the studio a couple of years ago and dismissed pieces of this ilk as "just Kandinsky" (also not Synthetic Cubism, but close enough). I take that as a compliment, since last I heard Mr. K. worked with paint (with all its history and baggage) and these are entirely done with a computer, printer, scissors, and tape. Masquerading as somewhat stylish drawings and paintings, they are simulacra--"robot Kandinsky." Unlike Mike Bidlo and the appropriators, though, I'm not making facsimiles of known early Modernist works. I'm actually still interested in the puzzles of representing a "vortex" or "field." How much does that "pure" field reflect the stamp of the imaging program? Can that programming be circumvented or thwarted? What is inherently "cyber" and what belongs to the pre-technological past? Those are some of the issues here.

SSC (Studio)

- tom moody 10-04-2004 5:12 am [link] [add a comment]



Van Der Graaf Flux

Van Der Graaf Flux Back

Van Der Graaf Flux det.

- tom moody 9-18-2004 9:55 am [link] [add a comment]



Bigbit3

- tom moody 9-01-2004 9:42 am [link] [add a comment]



Abstraction w 2 Centrifuges


Abstraction Detail

- tom moody 8-26-2004 8:43 pm [link] [add a comment]



deviant buckyball back

buckyball arm reverse

- tom moody 8-22-2004 9:47 am [link] [add a comment]



Double Buckyball

- tom moody 8-20-2004 7:15 am [link] [add a comment]



bigbit4

- tom moody 8-16-2004 10:03 am [link] [add a comment]



deviant buckyball w drawings

- tom moody 8-14-2004 4:40 pm [link] [add a comment]

deviant buckyball front

- tom moody 8-14-2004 4:37 pm [link] [add a comment]

deviant buckyball back

Work in progress; the back side of a piece prior to taping. It looks kind of elegant as a drawing.

- tom moody 8-14-2004 4:34 pm [link] [add a comment]



terrazzo

fill abstraction 3

- tom moody 8-14-2004 4:34 pm [link] [add a comment]



MSPaint(brush) Drawings Studio View

Recent drawings, studio installation view.

Larger views of some of the drawings are here (click thumbs for enlarged versions).

- tom moody 8-14-2004 4:33 pm [link] [add a comment]



fill abstraction

- tom moody 8-14-2004 4:31 pm [link] [add a comment]



Fifties Fill Still

- tom moody 8-14-2004 4:27 pm [link] [add a comment]

Seed Pod StillSeed Pod StillSeed Pod Still
Seed Pod StillSeed Pod StillSeed Pod Still

- tom moody 3-17-2004 7:24 am [link] [add a comment]



Shoe

- tom moody 2-11-2004 5:17 am [link] [add a comment]