Projects (2003-Current) > Debate Stage Water Bottles (2016)

The infamous dinner party for several of the presidential candidates… at which an uncomfortable situation arose when a steaming bowl of buttered noodles could not make its way around the table due to the refusal of one candidate to pass the bowl along. "I don’t pass food. I don’t. The media will want me to apologize for this, and I won’t."

These drawings feature short, hand-written texts describing humorous gaffes, shadowy strategies and the more mundane, behind-the-scenes details of various unnamed U.S. presidential candidates and campaigns. These texts are paired with or inside architectural maquette-like schematics of campaign-related environments such as debate stages, hotel rooms, diners, or anonymous carpeted rooms and hallways.

While some of the texts are fictional, a number are loosely based on current or past presidential candidacies. The point of departure for these new works comes from Some Concerns About the Candidate, an installation of drawings and books exhibited in 2013 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, in which an anonymous campaign worker describes the questionable tactics of a cult-like figure’s campaign for a U.S. congressional seat.

Carpet Patterns
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Carpet Patterns (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Carpet Patterns (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Debate Stage Water Bottles
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Debate Stage Water Bottles (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Foreign Policy
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Foreign Policy (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Traps for Gaffes
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Traps for Gaffes (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Traps for Gaffes (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Traps for Gaffes (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Reading Minds
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Reading Minds (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Self-help Reading
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Self-help Reading (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Hot Dogs
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Hot Dogs (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
All Attacks Diverted
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
All Attacks Diverted (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
All Attacks Diverted (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Intimidating Thumb Movements
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Intimidating Thumb Movements (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Intimidating Thumb Movements (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Dale Carnegie does not tell me what to do.
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Dale Carnegie does not tell me what to do. (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Dale Carnegie does not tell me what to do. (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
Bullet Proof Vest
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Bullet Proof Vest (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Bullet Proof Vest (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Absolute Unpredictability
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Absolute Unpredictability (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
Absolute Unpredictability (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Howard Dean
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Howard Dean (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Howard Dean (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Unlikeliest Outcome
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Unlikeliest Outcome (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Unlikeliest Outcome (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11 x 1/2 inches
2016
False Flag Campaigns
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
False Flag Campaigns (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Infamous Dinner Party
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Infamous Dinner Party (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
The Infamous Dinner Party (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
More Eyebrows than Necessary
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
More Eyebrows than Necessary (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016
More Eyebrows than Necessary (detail)
graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper
11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2016