American Bog Paintings 2013

Exhibited:

American Bog, solo exhibition, Broadway 1602, New York, USA

In conversation with Anke Kempkes

American Bog - Kelly Grovier

Lincoln I

  • Oil on canvas
  • 85.1 x 73 cm
  • 2013
Reinvention of famous Abraham Lincoln image by Mark Alexander using thick dark oil paints.

Lincoln 1 ten years on

  • Oil on canvas
  • 85.1 x 73 cm
  • 2013
Reinvention of famous Abraham Lincoln image by Mark Alexander using thick dark oil paints as though ten years later. (Framed)

Lincoln 11

  • oil on canvas
  • 61.2 x 46 cm
  • 2013
Dark reinvention of classsic image of Abraham Lincoln by Mark Alexander.

Lincoln 2

  • Oil on canvas
  • 61.2 x 46 cm
  • 2013
Reinvention of famous Abraham Lincoln image by Mark Alexander using thick and dark oil paints.

American Flag 1854

American flag painted in very thick oil paint , various shades of black , getting more and more wrinkled and darker over the years

The Frekes

Painting of Mother and child , one of the first portraits of an American family to be painted , painted here in browns read and green in Alexander’s so called bog style , imitating the look of the ancient bog bodies found in Northern Europe

Stars (Study)

  • Oil on board
  • 25.4 x 20.3 cm
  • 2013
Oil painting of the US flag re-invented in thick oil paints. Heavily wrinkled. (Study)

Flag 1959

  • Oil on canvas
  • 90.5 x 126.5 cm
  • 2013
Oil painting of the 1959 US flag re-invented in thick oil paints. Heavily wrinkled.

American Bog (Flag 1777)

  • Oil on canvas
  • 68.5 x 98.3 cm
  • 2013
Oil painting of the 1777 US flag re-invented in thick oil paints. Heavily wrinkled.

Mickey (Study)

  • Oil on board
  • 30 x 30 cm
  • 2013
Study of Mickey Mouse painting by Mark Alexander in dark colours.