{"id":295,"date":"2007-06-21T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/big-fuckin-hands-big-fuckin-party\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T17:28:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T21:28:24","slug":"big-fuckin-hands-big-fuckin-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/big-fuckin-hands-big-fuckin-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Fuckin’ Hands: Big Fuckin’ Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very fun night, lots of people! I have post-hostess syndrome: I said “hi” to so many people and had so few conversations, everything is kind of a blur. But it was awesome, and packed with people who gave me flowers and kisses on the cheek, and told me how great everything looked. If you’re in the Seattle area and didn’t make it to the show, you should totally go and have a drink, the art will be up at Liberty<\/a> until August 1.<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos:<\/p>\n

Me and Dani Cone, owner of Fuel<\/a>, three fabulous coffeeshops in Seattle:<\/p>\n

\"medanilorez.jpg\"<\/p>\n

A lovely lass reading my Artist’s Statement:<\/p>\n

\"readaingstatementlorez.jpg\"<\/p>\n

A friend of mine asked me to post my artist’s statement, so here it is.<\/p>\n

Hands are an extremely rich subject to draw. They have so many layers of meaning. As tools, they play a role in practically everything we do, but they have much more character and significance than that.<\/p>\n

When we speak of someone\u2019s hands, we often mean this as a metaphor for a person\u2019s character. Hands are very telling. \u201cWorking hands.\u201d \u201cPiano player\u2019s hands.\u201d People fall in love with other people\u2019s hands. Drawing a person\u2019s hands is like drawing their portrait \u2013 in some ways hands reveal as much about a person as their face does.<\/p>\n

The larger paintings depict iconic sexual gestures, ways we use our hands to signify sex acts. I painted them in a very simple style, with simple lines. They are meant to be universal (in our culture, at least), not a specific person\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

The smaller paintings are sexual hand positions, ways we use our hands to perform sex acts. These paintings are from photos of my friends\u2019 hands as well as one of my own, captured as I walked around a party while they, playful extroverts, gamely grabbed and mimed for the camera. [see previous post!! -ed.] Since I intended the paintings to be portraits, they have a lot more detail than the large ones (the shapes of the nails, the wrinkles on the knuckles). You can infer your own ideas of personality traits from each one. You may even do that unconsciously (tentative? aggressive? honest?).<\/p>\n

This series has been a blast for me. I love drawing hands. They\u2019re not easy, and it\u2019s been an exciting challenge, especially since I work with as few lines as I can to describe shapes and volumes. It\u2019s also exciting for me to paint on a large scale, since most of my work is usually relatively small – to make a sweeping paint stroke with a big brush, using the arc of my arm.<\/p>\n

My intent in much of my work is to depict sex and sexuality in a positive, playful way \u2013 explicit, without being literal or graphic. I think of my work as similar to burlesque \u2013 playful, teasing, leaving some information tantalizingly hidden. In this series, some of the images might even be considered raunchy (I hope!). But they\u2019re just hands. The rest of the story is up to the viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very fun night, lots of people! I have post-hostess syndrome: I said “hi” to so many people and had so few conversations, everything is kind of a blur. But it was awesome, and packed with people who gave me flowers and kisses on the cheek, and told me how great everything looked. If you’re in … Continue reading “Big Fuckin’ Hands: Big Fuckin’ Party!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}