{"id":4307,"date":"2013-05-03T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2017-04-19T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T05:41:57","slug":"altered-paintings-project-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/altered-paintings-project-2013-4307\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Paintings Project 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared on May 3, 2013 in The Alamedan<\/a>. Michele Ellson, editor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fitz, “In This Corner”<\/p><\/div>\n

Andrew \u201cFitz\u201d Fitzpatrick has exhibited some God-awful paintings at REDUX Studios & Gallery over the past few years. At least they started off that way: garage sale castaways he rescues and bestows a touch of irony. His altered paintings were a hit in the group shows \u201cValue Added: Art on Reclaimed Surfaces\u201d in December 2011 and \u201cYour Friends & Neighbors\u201d in August 2012, a credit to \u201chis combination of humor and craftsmanship,\u201d according to Chris Rummell, manager at REDUX. Inspired in part by those works, REDUX opened \u201cThe Altered Paintings Project\u201d on April 12.<\/p>\n

As raw material for this exhibit, Rummell scrounged prints of paintings from the distribution center of Saint Vincent de Paul, which owns the gallery. \u201cI chose mass-produced works rather than originals,\u201d he said, thereby avoiding the feeling of defacing another artist\u2019s work, like drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa.<\/p>\n

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Jo Anne Yada, “Stay Puft Goes to Italy”<\/p><\/div>\n

Some of the paintings reflect a once-trendy and now-deprecated aesthetic, such as a lithograph of a very ’80s watercolor botanical by Oscar Tejeda, to which Shona Taylor added an antlered Cyclops, serenely fishing. But for the most part the works provided for alteration were quite good, including masterpieces like William Marlow\u2019s oil painting \u201cCapriccio: St Paul\u2019s and a Venetian Canal\u201d (c. 1795). In one of the most surgical modifications in the show, Jo Anne Yada added the head and torso of the gargantuan marshmallow man who terrorized New York in the 1984 film \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d here peeking from behind the cathedral, and rechristened the work \u201cStay Puft Goes to Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other subtle alterations include Elisa O\u2019Keefe\u2019s pleasantly absurd addition of a Goya-like man swinging from an unknown point over the wave-tossed shore of Russian painter Eugene Garin’s \u201cStormy Cove,\u201d and Lynn Landry\u2019s ninjas, presumably uninvited guests crashing a party in a watercolor garden painted by Ray Burdzinski.<\/p>\n

Some transformed the work through overlaying elements, rather than by insertion. Fitz added DJ Daft Punk\u2019s helmet to the visage of Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne in Flemish painter Adam Frans van der Meulen\u2019s 17th century portrait, and Jen Yuen drained the blood from Heywood Hardy’s, \u201cShortcut to the Meet,\u201d applying Pomeranians over fox hounds, and turning the hunter\u2019s steed into a unicorn with a purple mane and rainbow \u201ccutie mark,\u201d \u00e1 la \u201cMy Little Pony.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lynn Landry, “Ninja Garden Party”<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Rummell, some would-be participants wondered if they qualified as artists. He felt that for them it was a good opportunity to collaborate, unofficially, with another artist, as a starting point in their careers.\u00a0\u201cOur goal was to remove the heavy hand of the blank canvas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Altered Paintings Project runs through June 9, with plans to make it an annual tradition. REDUX is located at 2315 Lincoln Avenue. They are open from 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. (510) 865-1109.<\/p>\n

Michael Singman-Aste
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