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.

ALEA AS BABY KRISHNA

ADRIANA


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.

AMANDA LEPORE / WHITE VENUS & BLACK VENUS


MY GHOSTS / SELF PORTRAIT

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.