Q: Translators move a story from one language to another. How can this work visually?
In this series I used the works of two artists or two pieces from the same artist and overlaid them to see what would happen. The result is more mashup than translation but either way it’s a fine adventure.
Translating – Alex Colville June 22, 2016 SOLD
acrylic, gouache and ink on paper,18” x 24” (form is emptiness, emptiness is form)
Horse and the Train 1954 and To Prince Edward Island, 1965
Translating –Haring & Cezanne April 14, 2016 SOLD
acrylic, gouache and ink on paper, 18” x 24”
Keith Haring-Radiant Child 1982 and Paul Cezanne – By from L’Estaque 1886
Translating – Magritte and Dali April 6, 2016 SOLD
acrylic, gouache and ink on paper,18” x 24”
Rene Magritte – The Son of Man 1946 and Salvador Dali – The Persistence of Memory 1931
Translating – Lawren Harris February 3, 2016 SOLD
acrylic, gouache and ink on paper, 19” x 24”
Maligne Lake–Jasper Park 1924 and Summer House-Grimsby Park 1926
Translating – Franklin Carmichael January 12, 2016 SOLD
acrylic, gouache and ink on paper, 19” x 24”
Mirror Lake 1929 and Autumn in Orillia 1924
Translating – Tom Thomson 2 January 6, 2016 SOLD
acrylic, gouache and ink on paper,19” x 24”
The West Wind 1917 and The Canoe 1912
watercolours, gouache and ink on paper,
The Jack Pine 1917 and The Tangled Garden 1916
Translating – Van Gogh May 20, 2015
watercolours, gouache and ink on paper, 11” x 14”
Starry Night 1889 and Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Aries 1889
Translating – The Cartoonists Three May 5, 2015
watercolours and ink on paper, 14” x 11”
(Gahan Wilson – Nothing happens next. This is it
Gary Larson –And so the doctor says to me, Do you know you’ve got an elephant growing out of your neck?
Richard Williams – The Thief and the Cobbler - Nasrudin)
