Hot Pink Brick

https://www.jacksonmartin.com/sculpture

First Pink Cinder Block Model by willart4food on Sketchfab

Hi! My mother painting the cinder block walls of the apartment we lived in from 1990-96 was the inspiration. Thanks for asking!

See Jim’s work here: http://bambooturtle.com/

Acrylic on canvas board by Ayubi 

Plywood Cinder Block by Matthew Farnsworth  - 2017

Grand Canyon

Thank you to the Little School!  Acrylic on canvas.

BRICKS NEED MORTAR

Chicago, Illinois.  Altgeld Gardens, circa 1995.

“Portrait of the Artist as the Shadow of Her Former Self”, Oil on Canvas, 24″ x 36″

Neon by Brad Corso. Follow him on instagram @death__cat

This past October I wrote to Ebony G. Patterson to request that photos I took of her magnificently ornate installation at 21C be added to this blog.  She gave me the green light, and I was thrilled.  I had to get back to my own work so I hadn’t made time to post the pictures until now.  I saw the installation for the first time on my way to Beverly McIver’s talk or maybe once before that, but it was exciting to see pink cinder blocks in a prominent artist’s work.  My “real, real” initial response was nervousness about whether or not the local art crowd would see my show in December as derivative of this installation.  I let that feeling go and pushed forward.  I absolutely embrace the possibility of artists that have never met tapping into some universal consciousness, especially if that might mean that I’m sharing some psychic inspiration with an artist as gifted as Ebony G. Patterson. Besides that shared element, it’s clear that we have different reasons for using the cinder block as a motif. That’s also what attracted me to the work; the idea that a symbol can embody a different meaning when filtered through a different artist’s lens.  This iconic form has so much potential, and she uses it in such a complex and lovely fashion.  THANK YOU, EBONY!

Made on a 3D printer at one of the Makerspaces at UNC-Chapel Hill

Contemporary Art Historian, the author of Pay for Your Pleasures, Cary Levine came through with this gem.

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