Orson Welles v. The Burning Dumpster

Self Portrait as Orson Welles #9

The whole Orson Welles body of work is quarter turn past gleeful tempting of the fates to flex their irony muscles. A bit of theater, a bit self-delusion, a bit of trolling. It’s about genius, holy icons, idolatry, martyrdom, infamy and celebrity; it’s about me, self-destruction, self-reflection, self-aggrandizement.

These paintings and the book originally appeared in mid 2007 at Sala Diaz in San Antonio. The vinyl-letter people who put the title and the artist onto the window misspelled both mine and Orson’s last name.

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Self Portrait as Orson Welles #9

2007

1’ × 1’
acrylic on panel

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Transcendental Shame over a Burning DumpsterTeh TrialPortrait of the Artist as Orson Welles

Other Sets

When shown in the gallery, this notebook, the pen and the bone folder are on the floor, right under the painting, a little off to the side and out of the way.


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