While I’m impressed that Will Dailyrest, my estranged ex-collaborator, seems to have gotten his old aerospace gear working and established a solid video feed from space and (supposedly) the future, I’m non-plussed that he removed or backgrounded all my artwork in the case and hot-glued the locks.
If the locksmith or police don’t get there to remove it before the opening this Friday, Feb 14th, please come anyway. He hasn’t messed with the stuff on the walls. Yet.
The show is in the hallway of the Hilton Garden Inn, 130 East Seneca St, Ithaca, NY 14886 until the End of February.
some of these pieces have been sold (see captions for prices)
click on images below for nifty slideshow
"Venice Airport, Florida"
photographic print
by Bryan Root
Canon 7d and Photoshop 2019
20" x 20" (can print other sizes)
2019
$450 framed
"Venice Pier Florida"
photographic print
by Bryan Root
Canon 7d and Photoshop 2019
20" x 20" (can print other sizes)
2019
$450 framed
"Fluorescent Enlightenment"
original artwork
by Bryan Root
Latex on canvas drop cloth
47" x 59"
2018
$SOLD
"Agent Orange"
original artwork
by Bryan Root
Latex on canvas drop cloth
47" x 61"
$1200
“Sunset Dome”
original artwork
by Bryan Root
Latex and Shellac on Muslin
108" x 67"
2017
$SOLD
“Bong Hitler”
original artwork
by Bryan Root
Latex on Canvas Dropcloth
58" x 43"
2018
$SOLD
I paint on actual dropcloths
“War of the worlds 01”
original artwork
by Bryan Root
Latex on Canvas Dropcloth
80 1/2" x 45 1/4"
2018
$800
“War of the worlds 02”
original artwork
by Bryan Root
Latex on Canvas Dropcloth
26 1/2" x 46"
2018
$500
“War of the worlds 01”
original artwork
by Bryan Root
Latex on Canvas Dropcloth
80 1/2" x 45 1/4"
2018
$800
“Bones of Giants 03”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Iphone 6 and Photoshop
framed by artist $400
Unframed $99
“Bones of Giants 02”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Iphone 6 and Photoshop
printed on metallic paper
framed by artist $300
Unframed $99
“Bones of Giants 01”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Iphone 6 and Photoshop
printed on metallic paper
framed by artist $400
Unframed $79
“Winter In Mirkwood”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Canon 7d and Photoshop
framed by artist $400
Unframed $99
These images are actually stitched together from dozens of photographs, so the resolution is what I call "poor man's large format."
“Eye Chart”
poster
by Bryan Root
Photoshop
framed by artist $175
Unframed $15
Look a little closer.
“Forks Township Disturbance”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Iphone 6 and Photoshop
printed on metallic paper
framed by artist $350
Unframed $89
“Suburban Disturbance”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Iphone 6 and Photoshop
printed on metallic paper
framed by artist $300
Unframed $79
“Halseyville Road Event”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Iphone 6 and Photoshop
printed on metallic paper
framed by artist $300
Unframed $79
“T-Burg Handyman 01”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Canon 7d and Photoshop
framed by artist $200
Unframed $30
“T-Burg Handyman 02”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Canon 7d and Photoshop
framed by artist $200
Unframed $30
“T-Burg Handyman 03”
artist’s proof
by Bryan Root
Canon 7d and Photoshop
framed by artist $200
Unframed $30
Bob Potts is a builder in Trumansburg, New York. He contacted me in 2009 to document kinetic sculptures he’d made and post them, along with an earlier film which had been shot by Peter Carroll. The layout and the format were to match that previous film and the same musician, Peter Dodge, was to do the soundtrack. So my job was to light, shoot, and edit, which I did. I also designed his YouTube Channel which has thousands of subscribers. Bob is soft-spoken, intense and multi-talented. He’s a poster child for what a good video can do for an artist. Since he posted his work on YouTube his art career has taken off with shows all over the world and a gallery in Switzerland. The films we made were also featured on the website Colossal.
After many years of computer and electronics-based art I got tired of having my creativity mediated by machines that demand updates, bug fixes, and a maddening and endless search for technical know-how. So I have started painting again, after a long hiatus–partly because someone I owe a lot of money to had a big empty wall in his waiting room and a tiny little painting to put on it.
This post advertises the service.
Big Wall, Tiny Painting
My first client agreed to consider a trade with the stipulation that he didn’t have to take my proposed large-scale painting if he didn’t like it. That seemed reasonable. Looking at his taste and with the direction of “abstract with texture, and pow colors,” I started with some photoshop mock-ups (below–clicking the image will advance the slideshow):
Through this process I established:
That he didn’t like circles (though he came around eventually), or too much red.
That he wanted something bright.
That he kept coming back to a section of my second proposal (2 of 4) which, despairing of finding the right photoshop brush to do good paint splatter, I had pasted a Jackson Pollock painting into the mockup and threw some filters on it to make it match the floor.
So I decided on Jackson Pollock. It’s what I wanted to do anyway and the final result can be seen at the top of this page or the end of the slide show. The still image doesn’t do it justice.
Before moving to Trumansburg, I worked as a set dresser and propmaker in Los Angeles. These photos are (a tiny sample) of sets I dressed and destruction that I wrought for the TV show “The Middleman” as well as some stuff from “Dirty Habit,” and “Spacerex.”
Strictly speaking, I did not art direct the middle man. Rather I was part of a team of people among whom was an art director who was not me. I was the onset dresser, and worked the set during the actual production.
