Below are The Spinner Paintings that I created in college. These were experimental works that I created as a first step towards interactive and installation type painting. Each painting was 3′ x 3′ in size and had two paintings on it, one on each side of the 2″ x 4″ stretcher bars. The stretcher bars had large dowel rods in each of the four sides of the paintings, and each painting had a stand that I had specifically designed for these works which allowed them to work as an installation piece that would allow the paintings to be viewed at various angles and rotated in numerous ways.
Whistler © 1998 Jeff Thomann
Media: Oil Painting
Da Vinci © 1998 Jeff Thomann
Media: Oil Painting
Matisse © 1998 Jeff Thomann
Media: Oil Painting
Mondrian © 1998 Jeff Thomann
Media: Oil Painting
Van Eyck © 1998 Jeff Thomann
Media: Oil Painting
Degas © 1998 Jeff Thomann
Media: Oil Painting
I feel that in many ways these works were sort of my way of showing an appreciation for the art and artists that these works were portraits of (and simultaneously emulations of) in much the way that many of Red Grooms works showed an appreciation for other artists by emulating them.
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