Eric Robert Parnes, Jean Pierre Ramos at STILLLIFE
December 19th, 2009 by Menachem Wecker
The above image comes from the Md.-based STILLLIFE. Here’s the caption: “Clockwise: Eric Parnes ‘Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll’ (in Farsi) neon sign 18″x20″ 2008. Jean Pierre Ramos ‘Men’s shirt’ vegetable ivory button, 2009. Jean Pierre Ramos ‘Behind the Scenes’ 2009. Eric Parnes ‘KFC’ acrylic on canvas 8″ x 6″ 2009.”
According to the promotional materials, Parnes is an American Iranian who presents an “intentional revision of the ways in which grapheme have driven war, religion, and fashion through time,” and Ramos is “a multi lingual New Yorker of Colombian and French ancestry.”
For those who have time to visit Parnes’ website, I find the Shopping and News Anchors series particularly interesting and provocative. The Judaica series puzzles me a bit, and I will have to give it more thought.