archetti select past works (07-09)

above: spaghetti-faced-johnson, or, grocery list
from the pilsen window series
created in chicago in 2009
oil on found window


photographed by sarah dieleman
against a wall vs. against another window
(aka: frontlit vs. backlit)




concept:


these paintings were an attempt to create 
non-traditional-portrait-based-works
that are relatively simple in composition
and which walk the line between whimsical and disturbing,
depending on how seriously one takes what they see,
or, more literally, how they are lit and how they are viewed
(paint has been thinned so as to diffuse, but not block, light)