Drawings

Sick Cartoons

Sick Cartoons are individual drawings created with pen and colored pencil. These pieces are then exposed to various biohazardous agents, depending on the particular series. methods of exposure have included coughing and phlegm washes for the H1N1 (Swine Flu) scare, and blood washes with TB (tuberculosis) positive blood from a local hospital. These pieces force the viewer to recognize the way that semantic meaning is contained within invisible particulate layers which sit on top of our objects of beauty. By adding a layer of context (contaminate) to these classical objects of beauty, one can render them repulsive without altering the physical appearance. These objects are sized at the normal size of their transmission (i.e. approximately the size they would appear in art history textbook reproductions). For examples of the cartoons in situ, please see Installation.

Asger Jorn, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Barnett Newman, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Bruce Nauman, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Ellsworth Kelly, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Eva Hesse, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Hans Namuth, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Raymond Pettibon, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Richard Hamilton, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Thomas Ruff, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Gran Fury, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Robert Smithson, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Roy Liechtenstein, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Kara Walker, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Michelangelo Pistoletto, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Richard Prince, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Shigeko Kurabe, 2009. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Jasper Johns, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Caspar David Friedrich, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Frida Kahlo, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Scribe of Kells), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Hellenistic Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Andy Warhol, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Henry Fuseli, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Assyrian Captive), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Gianlorenzo Bernini, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Ottonian Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Joseph Beuys, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Jacques Lipchitz, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Roman Painter), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Giotto di Bondone, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Albrecht Dürer, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Piet Mondrian, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Édouard Manet, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Egyptian Engraver), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Salvador Dali, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Edvard Munch, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Byzantine Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Late Roman Mosaicist), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Masaccio, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Constantin Brancusi, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Classical Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Praxiteles, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Thomas Gainsborough, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Gianlorenzo Berninini [sic], 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Leonardo da Vinci, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Gustav Klimt, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Ur Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Paleolithic Shaman), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Minoan Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Roman Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Etruscan Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Cycladic Sculptor), 2010.

Jacques-Louis David, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Frans Hals, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

William Blake, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Marc Chagall, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Nadar, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

John Heartfield, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Marsden Hartley, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Mark Rothko, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Florentine Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Jan van Eyck, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Jean Fouquet, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Gothic Freemason), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Old Kingdom Sculptor), 2010.

Domenico Ghirlandaio, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Minoan Mosaicist), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Frank Lloyd Wright, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Moghul Mason), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Anonymous (Olympic Sculptor), 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

Kazimir Malevich, 2010. Colored Pencil and Pen on Paper.

 Non-Series Drawing

Mushroom, 2010. Mixed media on paper.

Chance Procedure #1, 2010. Mixed media on paper.

Man vs. Superman, Ink and Charcoal on Paper, 2007.

Untitled, 2007. Ink on Paper.

Self-Portrait, 2007. Charcoal on Paper.

Shells, 2007. Mixed media on paper.

Blind Drawing, 2010. Mixed media on paper.

 

Contour Drawing, 2007. Mixed media on paper.

Nude, 2007. Mixed media on paper.

Hand, 2007. Mixed media on paper.

Oath of the Horatii, sketch, 2009. Pen on paper.

Some Sort of Parrot #16, Comic Strip, 2007. Pen on Paper.


Pika-Don

  Pika-Don, a graphic novel, was published in 2010 as part of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project. Written and illustrated by a team of students, Pika-Don tells the true story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a double survivor of the atom bomb in World War II era Japan, and his three day race to make it home from Hiroshima to Nagasaki to tell his family that he is still alive, and to keep them from committing suicide rather than face what they believe will be a merciless invasion in the end days of the war. Yamaguchi's death in 2010 and his work as a teacher, an activist for peace and nuclear non-proliferation, and a poet and painter in his later life prompted the writing and illustrating of this moving story.

"Pika-Don is a testament to the storytelling talents of a new generation of comics creators. Watch them. Read this."--Nick Abadzis, Eisner award-winning author of Laika.