"Plan B" Original Canvas

"Plan B"

This canvas has elicited very different responses from people over the years; some find it humorous, others find it disturbing.

The most powerful response however was from a former neighbor who lived across the street. Unbeknownst to me, she would watch me paint late into the night from her window. One day her husband came over to tell me that she'd been on a waiting list for a liver transplant for years, and that the chances were getting slim that she'd survive much longer. He said that this painting gave her hope, of all things, to carry on. Sure enough, she ultimately received the transplant and has been doing fine ever since.

The power of art, sometimes.

Matte acrylic on canvas. Dimensions: 84" x 60" x 2.25". Painted: 2007, shown in the Boise Art Museum's 2007 Idaho Triennial.

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NOTE: I'm not especially interested in selling this original canvas, so I've intentionally set it as Sold Out. However, I do want it visible in the store as it provides thematic context for washlively.com images and merchandise (Most of the digital tableaux on washlively.com have a hand painted, large format canvas counterpart.)

That said, if you're seriously interested in this canvas, please contact me.

As with all of my OXXO work, this painting is made with very saturated, high-key, matte acrylic paint. There's absolutely no sheen on any of the colors, so there's no glare under intense light.

This is NOT a mockup. This is a physical canvas that I stretched and painted on a frame I built myself. There's been no Photoshop manipulation of the painting whatsoever other than to isolate it from the background and studio props, which have been desaturated and blurred for emphasis. The colors have not been enhanced and are as bright and solid as they appear in the photos.

Props are not for sale.

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