In the 20 acrylic-on-canvas scenes in Jakarta Ko, he does a wheelie at a Bamako wedding and outpaces two grumpy police officers.
Canvas scenery depicting stock scenes is now used by most popular troupes, but unfortunately it is often as inartistic as it is inexpensive.
Male and female characters from the performance artist Yvette Helin's Pedestrian Project serve as the canvas for scenes from Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
So there are assorted, distinctly Oedipal clashes between the two men, played for all-out dramatic fierceness, and a gloriously frenzied, feral canvas-priming scene (staged to a swelling Gluck aria).
The hands-on class, supervised by Leslie Ransick Gat, an objects conservator, and the armory's collections curator, Nina Gray, assessed the condition of overstuffed Victorian furniture, canvas war scenes, maps and portraits of soldiers, and found some dire problems.
One of the earliest pieces, "Dinner Time" from 1965, is a straightforward oil-on-canvas domestic scene; "Liberty #6 (Study for Trash) (Bicentennial Series)," made six years later, is a symbolic depiction of a parade float carrying headless nude soldiers and a woozy blond, flag-swathed Lady Liberty.
Other items include a 19th century Korean chest, $850; an acrylic-on-canvas underwater scene by local artist Leslie Saris, $600; and a vintage ivory pendant, $30.
In this room and elsewhere in the exhibition are large screen prints on canvas of scenes from old Hollywood B movies overlaid with enlarged nails.
Take a look at Shaking Out the Bed (2015), for example, an immense canvas of a scene that seems laughably banal an aerial view of a couple lazing around in bed, entangled without evident passion, and surrounded by heavily frosted donuts and other random detritus.
They used scene canvas sprayed with gold, silver and copper metallic pigment for the first time.
