Postcards to AZ series consists of 5” x 7” oil on board paintings. ‘AZ’ refers to Adolf Ziegler, Hitler’s favorite painter and curator of the notorious 1937 Degenerate Art exhibitions that consisted of modernist artworks despised by the Third Reich for their lack of ‘purity’. The Nazis confiscated 20,000+ works, many of which were destroyed, sold, or lost.
My project reimagines these works and is concerned with ‘eternal return’ – the concept that history is repetitive. By sending postcards to the past I am addressing the present, as events from the past tend to recur eternally in different forms.

Ernst Barlach, God the Father Hovering. 1922

7 x 5 inch

Oil on board

2016

Artemis Diana alabaster sculpture statue bust ancient Greek goddess of hunt

7 x 5 inch

Oil on board

2015

Rock head

7 x 5 inch

Graphite on board

2016

Ernst Barlach, Die Flamme, 1934

7 x 5 inch

Oil on board

2017

Vintage Japanese wood carving of an old man by Fukuro, ID:FA-101, (num1)

7 x 5 inch

Oil on board

2015

Der Asket, 1925

7 x 5 inch

Oil on board

2016

Minerva (Athena), head of a Roman statue, copy after Greek original, 1st century BC

7 x 5 inch

Oil on board

2015

Portrait of actress Anni Mewes, 1917/1921 by Edwin Scharff. Entartete Kunst

7 x 5 inch

Oil on board

2015

Unknown 2

5 x 7 inch

Oil on board

2016

Installation view, Josée Bienvenu Gallery

Installation view, Postcards to AZ, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, 2016