Skin Deep
2023
Used VHS cassette tapes and paint on wood
114cm x 114cm
The artwork features vintage romantic titles, including: Titanic, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Grease, Sleepless in Seattle, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Bodyguard, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Forrest Gump, When Harry Met Sally, Life is Beautiful, Sliding Doors, Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Sense and Sensibility, Pretty Woman and more.
Made from VHS tapes contributed by members of the public. As a social art project, the process is open to everyone. Find out how to recycle and include your obsolete materials in future artworks by getting in touch.
“Offspring of Metropolis and Ex Machina, Gentry’s wide-eyed people, who wear informational histories on their skins, tell us as much about the future as they do about the past.”
‘Mask 1’ (left) and ‘Skin Deep’ (right) in Skin Deep solo show at Robert Fontaine Gallery. Photo by Michael R Lopez
‘Skin Deep’ (centre) in Skin Deep solo show at Robert Fontaine Gallery. Photo by Michael R Lopez
Details
Oil and acrylic paint on canvas
50.5cm x 40.5cm
Signed and dated 2024
About
My Blockhead portraits explore fragmented identity in the digital age, contrasting realism and abstraction. These works on canvas employ geometric blocks to suggest pixelation, they reflect how digital culture impacts anonymity and self-perception, questioning censorship, selective information, and the ever-present gaze of technology.
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