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Brian DriscollSam, Reclining Male Nude with Hounds Tooth Background and Floral Foreground2019
2019
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"Sam" by Brian Driscoll is presented in three layers. The male nude reclines in front of a background of hounds tooth wall paper and then Sam is overlayed with a veil of floral designs. It is as if are being allowed to draw back the curtain into this very private space. This three-dimensional quality of Driscoll's drawing is highly complex in its execution. Each layer is a different geometrical pattern - the heavy lines that take up the wallpaper, the tiny hash marks that evolve into Sam and finally, the absence of color to create the floral curtain.
Brian Driscoll
Sam, 2019
ink on paper
17h x 14w in
43.18h x 35.56w cm
BWD013
Through drawing, Driscoll creates Midwestern mythologies exploring aspects of masculinity in working-class rural America. The repeated mark making and diluted colors become a drone across the work to represent the monotony and helplessness of daily life. Imagined fantastical interior spaces are paired with a nude figure, hidden but in plain sight, exposed but unnoticed. The patterns of the wallpaper serve not only as decoration but also as a barrier, keeping the viewer at bay or trapping the figure within his reality. Cultural references range from vernacular to the esoteric within the work. There is a collapsing of fantasies into a single flat surface. The fantasies of sexuality and domesticity remain separate, the work becomes a metaphor for the conflict between sexual desires and societal expectations, a struggle all too well-known by many men in the heart of conservative America.
Driscoll grew up on a small sheep farm in rural Ohio. Every month, his grandmother, a teacher, would bring home giant sheets of paper that she had used as the background for her bulletin boards. Sprawled out on his grandparent’s cellar floor between the shelves of canned tomatoes and jars of homemade peach jam, he would draw on these makeshift canvases. Today, he still works on the floor of his studio drawing on large rolls of paper to create intricate ink on paper figure drawings.
- Creator:Brian Driscoll (American)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Chicago, IL
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