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| VENUS 11 (UNNAMED CORONA CRATER BETA REGIO) |
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“..compressional stress orientation had changed from a N-S trend to a trend parallel to the strike of the corona chains...
The Venus Drawings are created by drawing from online images of the Magellan Mission to Venus from the early nineties. A celebration of old new media-- primitive (by now) images of the sister planet surfaces are imprecise enough to launch a playful semi-erotica drawing extravaganza, with even a nod to Kenneth Anger’s Kustom Kar Kommandoes and the rock group Kiss (honoring the seventies and eighties along with the nineties). The airbrush paint is a deliberate kitschy kiss on the smooth skin of refined art papers. Some of the drawings are more serious than others, but all aspire to look like landing gear.
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DATE: 2009
Pigment ink, graphite on paper
30 x 22.5 inches |
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