Tag: paste-up
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Mutant Cucumber
In 2008 I started looking for weirder source photos to work from, as I was wanting to branch out from all the normal fruit and veg. This painting came from a photo I found on the internet of a strangely grown cucumber. One of my all time favorite Grocer paintings. I believe this was on…
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Soup Fixins
The Grocer created these two small paintings for a food themed show that Revise was putting together in 2008. I purchased all of these veggies from the Wicker Park farmer’s market one day and photographed them in these exact arrangements. They were painted on paper and pasted on cutting boards. Both sold at the show.…
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Grocer stickers and small stuff
I would often use the remaining paint on my palette to make little imaginary fruit paintings to paste up around.
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Ginger and Mushroom
These two 24×24″ panels was painted by The Grocer for his show at Foursided gallery. In the background of the ginger painting you can faintly see drawings of buildings that my son drew on the panel before I painted the background.
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The Grocer: more street work
More street installations from 2007 and 2008 by The Grocer.
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Trio of apples
These three apples by The Grocer went up on some scaffolding right above state street. You couldn’t miss them if you were walking north from Jackson.
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Mushrooms up high
These two mushrooms by The Grocer went up on a dilapidated high-rise on State street near Jackson. I climbed the scaffolding and used a squeegee to paste it higher. There’s a real fun story about my lookout not looking out, but in the end it was pasted and I got away clean.
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Grapefruit
At the time, this was the largest street installation by The Grocer, roughly 5 feet wide. I put this up on Milwaukee on one of the old bank windows, and it was quite a show stopper. Some tagger went over my piece (in blue) and I heard he got a lot of flack for it…
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The Grocer: summer 2007
More works by The Grocer from the summer of 2007.