THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 22 : Limited Edition

It's 1985..

and our artist is selling limited edition screen prints..

Madonna De Milo

he has sold one of these to Manchester City Art Gallery..

for their loan scheme..

Take Five..

He has sold several of these..

there are three layers..

yellow on the bottom..

the second layer is printed on both sides..

green on the front and pink on the back..

stars are cut out on all but one side..

then they are folded back to reveal the bottom layer..

on the top layer is a black halftone screen of..

the famous still from..

the seven year itch..

The Scream..

here you can see the cut outs working more clearly..

this shape inspired by ..

Ellsworth Kelly..

all but one of these went..

positive and negative palm..

a best selling print..

edition of 50..

still got a few but most sold..

the truth really..

is that his wife Virgina Stuart..

has made the appointments with the loan schemes..

and it is she who sold them there..

one of the artist's concepts..

was 'iconoclasm' ..

Janet Leigh gets the Warhol treatment..

straight from the shower..

then the cutting started..

then the folding back..

it was intended to be one of the layers..

for 'the scream'..

but this works better..

what do you think..

ICONOCLASM

the 'Pscho' prints were surplus to requirements..

once the decision not to use them for 'the scream'..

was made..

so the artist attacked them with paint stripper, white spirit and boot polish,,

you can imagine the frenzied attack..

a whole garage covered in paint stripper..

a destroyed icon..

smudged make up..

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/the+scream

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/flaps

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/east+100th+street

THEARTIST IN RESIDENCE 8

 IN THE FOUR SEASONS CAFE WITH ARKLE AND ARKLE'S JOCKEY

Lew, Jay Gatsby, Andy, Flash, Nog and Miffy,.

it is 1968 still..

all the gang are seated on either side of one of the long red banquettes,

Painty has his sketch pad and colour sticks..

he likes to carry these around..

just in case..

he has found a cigarette lighter..

in the street..

a nice Ronson gas Varaflame Comet..

he can press this and light peoples cigarettes..

yes people could smoke in cafes than..

he does not smoke himself..

he just has the lighter..

cool huh?

as an ice breaker..

it works a treat and soon he has many friends and..

an Identity..

he's the lighter guy..

you know the arty dude..

always carries a sketch pad..

PROPS DEPARTMENT

everyone needs a prop..

or a crutch as Dali says..

soon all will get noticed..

Andy says 15 minutes..

more like..

a New York minute..

anyway off with the trousers..

and on with the dress..

MEANWHILE BACK IN 1968

Mark Rothko has not denied this four seasons his murals..

he is still alive and smoking in his studio..

 in New York..

he stares at his great works and wishes..

the artist in residence..

could be there with him..

to light up his cigarettes..

no more dead matchsticks filling the ashtray..

littering the floor..

MEANWHILE

back at the local four..

Lew has brought along a poetry book..

with Lawrence Ferlinghetti..

and sometime during eternity..

some guys show up..

YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK

anything can happen..

anyone may come..

and hang out here..

guys come in from the local prison..

just out and needing caffein..

everyone is equal..

all are welcome..

careful who you go home with..

LATER DOWN AT THE BRIT

the club scene is really good here in palookaville..

you can see the Ronettes..

Clyde Mc Phatter..

Taste..

some guy is giving the evil eye..

at painty and Flash..

he wants to beat them up..

he is about to throw a punch when he sees Graham..

go over and have a laugh with them..

The big lug gives them both a smile later..

"I didn't know you were friends of Grahams"..

all is good and..

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

is still in one piece..

he will live to draw again..

so we beat on..

boats against the current..

P.S.

Arkle was the nick name of a girl..

a face about town..

 Jocky was her friend..

 always in tow..

in palookaville..

everything's a scream.. 

innit..

MORE ON FLAPS

yo!.. interactive... innit! 

so..

as promised..

here are a few more..

blasts from the past..

TAKE FIVE

I was showing my stuff around some..

london galleries in the 1980's

 

and francis kyle took two of these and sold them..

the photo from 'the seven year itch' set..

is printed in flourescent half tone..

 

cut in to with star shaped flaps..

which are folded back and underlaid by a 2nd print..

and then overlaid with a black halftone of the same image..

neat huh?

WOMEN WASHING

happy with his first punt..

francis asked me to submit a work..

inspired by 'women washing'

I was exited and set about creating..

a flap piece to fit the challenge..

I of course..

failed to ascertain his true idea..

which was more bonnard then warhol..

so anyway my work was not included in the exhibition..

 "In 1980 Stone was a contributor to the Gallery's theme exhibition, Women Washing and seven years later he participated in Now, Fair River..."

here is my version of women washing..

  

so - flaps r us... innit!

I guess i'm just a wheel re-inventor..

a wrong end of the stick kind of guy..

or perhaps I just think different..

MORE ON FLAPS

- ICONOCLASM -

I felt that this frame from psycho..

janet leigh in the shower tray..

could use a flap over..

so I created these..

 

visit gallery here 

COMING UP

king elvis has surely come..

the fruit machine stops..

more on east 100st..