Resin and paint
13"x7"x5"
I have this piece hanging in my apartment and people tend to think why is their a board with nails hanging out of it? Does Mark suck at building things or maybe it is a bad art piece? When I tell them that it isn't a board or nails that it is made out of resin and paint well then they get pretty amazed.
My art handling friend told me this story about how he hung a piece of cardboard on the wall just to show where a "real" art piece was going. A collector came by did a double take and said now this is the best piece I have seen here. It was at the Armory. My friend couldn't stop laughing but I saw my next piece.
What is a realistic painting is this a realistic painting if it is made out of paint?
Jeff Koons floating basketballs were my obvious inspiration, but they were real basketballs I figured I could make a basketball out of paint and resin. So I did.
The basketball looked cool but something was missing and then it fell off the bookshelf and broke. Like Duchamp's broken glass the piece got better. A basketball cannot keep it's form with a hole in it.
Resin cast
Paintings live in bubble wrap before and after they are displayed on a wall. I figured get rid of the painting and hang the bubble wrap.
Size varies
As an art handler I found there are more nails in the gallery than artwork. Why can't the nail be the artwork. But not a readymade nail but a realistic interpretation of a nail cast in resin.
I was at an art opening of Jonathan Laskers and I saw a nail in the wall about 5ft above his painting. I can't believe the art handler forgot to remove it and patch up the hole. It bugged me and it was art.