art, etc.: June 2007

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

bar couple 1

a small scan of a larger pen drawing i did in 2004--- one of the only NON political ones i did that year!
[c] 2007 doug duffey

Saturday, June 02, 2007

doug duffey painting in new orleans

these should probably have been posted in foto-mondo. this is a shot of me painting in my "studio room" in my house @ 4000 dumaine, new orleans, in the early 90s.

i'm not sure what happened to this huge painting i was working on [over 6 feet long] in this foto. i was doing a whole voodoo and totem series... not only as art but as a security system. i'd prop them up in the long hallway [that ran the length of my house] to deter anyone from breaking in. i also hung voodoo dolls in the windows, had a cow skull on a table by the window, and left the classical music station playing all the time. too scary for the thugs.

detail from one of my totem paintings [circa 1991]; these were done on boards- using white and black enamel paint.

[c] 2007 doug duffey

Friday, June 01, 2007

st. francis

found this little "saint francis" head on the street [carrolton] in new orleans, walking back from buying groceries. i've had it for years.
i did a series of webcam shots... using a cheap webcam [one of those 'eye' looking things] i'd set up, i shot vignettes with the it. i'd use various things that were laying around: in this one is an old rusted iron, and old papers, fake flowers, the saint head, etc. this is one from the series of many! cant decide if it should be categorized as a foto or not... if so... it's in the wrong blog

[c] 2007 doug duffey

that insect spirit

a small scanned version of a big collage done in NYC in the mid to late 90s. i'd just come back from Brussels, where i'd had 'carpel tunnel' surgery on my hand and was staying with my friend mary in brooklyn heights. i was getting antsy, from doing nothing, so began chopping up her magazines when she was at work to make collages [even though i was NOT supposed to be using my hand!]. this is one from the NYC series/book.

[c] 2007 doug duffey

don't get too high

a small collage done in Holland in 1993- from one of my small portable collage books. i've actually scanned these small collages at very hi resolution, thinking i would do enormous prints, poster sized. i still might do it.

[c] 2007 doug duffey

about this blog

this blog is where i post some of my drawings, paintings, collages, mixed media, photomontage, scans, videos, etc.- all of which i have been doing for as long as i can remember.

i began painting and making collage in the 60s; but even as a child i was always drawing/painting. i've continued doing both 'off and on' [more off than on] since.

i have periods where i'll get into art projects and do them until they run their course; but, as with my photography, i don't really have as much time as i'd like to have to devote to art.

i started doing a lot of brush and ink 'drawings', and pen and ink drawings in the 80s- [none of which have been scanned yet]- i might just photograph them, as they are too big to scan.

i didn't do collage for a long time, but began again in the early 90s in new orleans. i didn't do many there, but rather 'primed the pump' to begin to do them again. i was mostly doing abstract images, with a lot of torn color paper. when i'd leave and go on the road to work for long periods of time, i began doing them daily-as a form of entertainment, as something to fill time before and after shows. i began doing a lot of collages from xeroxed images i'd scan at local libraries, when i was working in towns for weeks... but i got tired of the only b&w images... so i'd do pen and ink drawings in between.

when i got to Europe in the early 90s i was staying a month in Basel- at a hotel on the Rhine. again i began doing collage as a means of entertainment [i was also making a lot of fotos]. i began using bits & pieces of found paper, discarded magazines, ripping paper off posters and billboards, using scotch tape as well as glue-sticks.

i began using small books to do the collages in, as they were easier to transport.
i did a lot of different series when i was spending long periods in brussels, berlin, rotterdam, den haag, and switzerland. some have been scanned and i will post some when i run across them.

most of the paintings i've posted on this site [shot w/a polaroid camera] are the smaller ones. in new orleans i had one big room in my house that i used only for painting- [and one as a darkroom]- i'd paint on 6 foot pieces of plywood, or big pieces of wood. i left most of those in storage buildings or outside [covered] until they ruined- so... some i burned- [i should have photographed them as they burned!] and some are still in my shed.

influenced by dada, german expressionism, primitive art, cocteau, picasso and art brut [outsider art]- i'm continuously discovering and being inspired by little known or unknown [by me and many] artists, thanks to great tv documentaries i see when i am in europe. always a new window/door opens...