Daniel Giordano, The Misadventures of Buddy Crapo: By Land, By Sea, and By Air from Turley Gallery

Glitter, hardware, nail polish, oil-based paint, phosphorescent acrylic, PVC primer, rubber, shellac, towels, water-based paint, wood
2020–2022

Fact is a vein of work that consists of house paint poured and soaked into towels and bedsheets from my childhood and beyond. I drag a stick through the different layers of paint to marble the surface. I often throw glitter into the mixture. Once dried, I wrestle to mount it to what I consider an appropriate stretcher; be it a bicycle frame, the steel base of a table, or my own welded concoction of steel, made from objects found in my family’s factory or on walks around Newburgh. I love the faux marble effect and how it echoes what I experienced seeing in Roman churches and cathedrals, Venetian plaster, etc. I feel there is much to be explored in regard to dimensional painting. Jay Defeo described The Rose as “a marriage between painting and sculpture.” I subscribe to that notion with my Facts.
The work of Dorothea Rockbourne, Elizabeth Murray, Ron Gorchov, as well as ancient images pecked into stone in the Valley of Fire State Park all come to mind as inspiration for these particular wall-mounted works.