DANA RICHARDSON / TORONTO CANADA - ISSUE 10 / NOVEMBER 2006

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Legacy
2002 48"x63" Aerosol acrylic on hardboard

The Piano
2000 44"x37" Aerosol acrylic on hardboard

I use black aerosol acrylics directy out of the spray can to create the images. There are no special tips, bulky compressors or airbrushing paraphenalia of any kind. In 2000 I added colored acrylics and rags with lots of acetone to the mix.

The Wall
2004 48"x36" Aerosol acrylic / acrylic on hardboard

Christina's World
2004 48x60" Aerosol acrylic / acrylic on hardboard

Influences:
"Having spent his brief, tragic and turbulent life painting miracles, he managed in the process to create one..."-Francine Prose from Caravaggio.

"[Henry] Miller expresses himself with an unprecedented vulgarity, but those who consider themselves guardians of morals will have to get used to it."- Georges Bataille

The American Realists from Watson to Sloan including the Wyeths
The Stenberg Bros.
Photographers Jean-Loup Sieff, Dahmane, Ellen Von Unwerth, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman and Terry Richardson
Futura

Sources include magazines, newspapers, the web and my own photographs.

Godzilla
2003 48"x35 1/2" Aerosol acrylic / acrylic on hardboard

Lipstick
2002 35"x48" Aerosol acrylic / acrylic on hardboard

Booby Trap (detail)
2004 40"x44" Aerosol acrylic / acrylic on hardboard

Thelma and Louise
2002 48"x35" Aerosol acrylic / acrylic on hardboard

Honey
2003 44"x25 3/4" Aerosol acrylic / acrylic on hardboard

Chopper
2001 37"x30" Aerosol acrylic / acrylic on hardboard