Jul 15
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This is a two-sided encaustic and collage painting from my IKEA series. It rests on a custom crown-moulding shelf I built for it, so that you can turn it over to display the other side at will. Shown here with a few of the digital sketches I made in preparation for the painting. Available in [...]
Förby was a cheap little plastic stool that sold for probably around $5 at IKEA. I never had one, but I knew plenty of people that did! I liked the Sputnik-like quality of this drawing, but I never made a painting based on it. Available in the gift shop.
Jul 15
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Espresso Express is a small encaustic and collage painting I made to benefit a local charity auction. It was the only painting in the auction that sold for more than double its value. It is based on the sketch Kontra, which was IKEA’s knockoff of the famous Bialetti stovetop espresso maker. (Note the old style [...]
Jul 15
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. Björkås is no longer offered by IKEA, but it was a small table you could mount to the wall and it would fold away when it wasn’t in use. It never made it into a painting, but the sketches are still pretty cool. BTW, I never bought a Bjorkas table… people would save their [...]
Jul 15
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Continuing my interest in suberted (and subverting) domesticity, in 2001/2002 I turned my attention to the IKEA series. A new IKEA went up in Philadelphia, and it became a regular weekend destination. Their products appealed to my sense of design (and my wallet), and I was challenged in a good way with ‘getting’ to put [...]
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