I took this photo with my Canon on E-6 film before I learned photoshop. I adjusted the exposure and moved my eye from right to left in order to get the effect of a marble statue eye.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
SELF PORTRAIT WITH MAKE UP EARLY 1990'S
I took this photo with my Canon on E-6 film before I learned photoshop. I adjusted the exposure and moved my eye from right to left in order to get the effect of a marble statue eye.
LILLIAN DEAN AT THE DEATHBED OF VINCENT CANCINO, ST.VINCENT'S HOSPITAL, NEW YORK, CIRCA 2000
My long time friend and collector of my art, Serena Jane Dean's (pictured right with halo) mother, Lillian (at left with halo) was remarried to a man named Vincent Cancino who's HIV had been escalating leading to him dying of AIDS. Lillian wanted me to make a family portrait as she held vigil for him. Her son is behind her, Serena's and my close friend Alison Parisi is the other female in the shot and I am in the corner wearing a Gucci watch.
CLASSIC AMANDA LEPORE
This image was used as the hang tag on a pair of underwear designed as an invite to Patricia Field's 'Naked Halloween' party in the late 1990's at a club called 'Life' in New York. My father has a large framed cibachrome print of the image in a white frame prominently displayed in his home. It was also featured in an article in Patricia Field's magazine 'Hotel Venus' interviewing Amanda and the David Lachapelle swatch of Amanda was spliced over the blue values of my image. Two other images of her that I made were in the article as well.
MADPUSSY
Self protrait with computer aided design. I had it printed on satin 2 1/2 x 4' and then stretched it on a wood frame. Then I poured envirotech light liquid galss on it and blow torched it and it became transparent. I currently have it on my landing with lights inside and different parts of the image light up.
KALI
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A blond haired blue eyed long time friend and collector of my art, Serena Jane Dean, posed for this around 2000. Jimmy Helvin did the hair and assisted the make up. I wanted all the symbols in the Goddess Kali's hands to be as exact as I could manage so I made trident on the upper left, the glitter arrows on the right and the glitter club she holds lower left. We suspended Serena from my terrace over the living room in an Eastern Mountain Sport harness. I had to take many shots to get the different arm locations with the proper tools and there were a million things to keep in place. It took morning until late night to make the image so it was very trying on all three of us. That, coupled with the Mehron black grease paint which didn't breathe, the hot Speedotron lights and the harness that was cutting off Serena's circulation, she began to expire and faint. We lowered and unhooked her and the actual shot of her face and body that I used was from one taken with her siting on a high folding ladder. We suspended the skin of a white leopard (to substitute for the lion Kali rides) that my grandfather killed in the East in the 1950's with clear string which made the entire set even more fragile. The black grease paint was everywhere on Serena for days including in her ears and her hair was totaled as Jimmy created the hair she has with her real hair and toilet paper rats. I made this before I appropriated images in collages with photoshop, so the trees, flowers, jewelry, weapons and symbols were all present during the shoot, except the flames and the energy beams that were photoshpped in later.
The costuming and makeup for the Kali photograph was so intense that the polaroid's were art on their own. I later blew them up and put them on wood and painted them with black oil paint. The below painting of Serena Jane Dean is one of my favorites and I don't think I will ever part with it.
DOUBLE SELF PORTRAITS ON THE STAIRS LATE 1990'S
'Untitled'
'Stair'
'Headless And Stair'
Above - Archival inkjet on satin print of 'Headless and Stair' that I later painted over with enamel. Still in my possession.
MUMMY OF THE LIGHTENING SPIDER
A self portrait of myself from early college photoshopped. I had one of the images printed from the computer on satin with archival dyes and stretched, but I can't find the original file which was a larger format than that pictured above. Stretched satin print still in my possession.
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