bouquet — *West Village Interior* (detail)

West Village Interior

I've had a recent urge to explore the masterpiece as a counterpoint to series work. West Village Interior was unconstrained by deadlines and meant to offer the viewer a grand and unexpected experience all its own—a large-scale work in which smaller elements crescendo into a complex whole. Read more »

I encountered this interior by chance years ago, when a friend of Jane's commissioned a portrait of her and her dog, Winnie. I couldn't get Jane's face right from photographs, so we met in person at her brownstone. We spent a wonderful afternoon surrounded by her incredible and stylistically diverse art collection, which filled every inch of wall space.

This work is inlaid cut paper on two panels. The archival cut papers are usually tinted with acrylic and/or flashe vinyl to expand the stock papers’ limited palette. The paper pieces are scalpel cut, inlaid (forming one layer) and adhered using reversible PVA glue. An isolation coat is applied before the final protective matte UV varnish.