Paul Urich
Take Me To Paradise
Jan 7 - Feb 6, 2011
Take Me To Paradise
Jan 7 - Feb 6, 2011
| For his new body of work, ink drawings and gouache paintings, Urich was inspired by tattoo "old timers" and prison based artists. The artist explains, “some pieces would have a few designs on them. Others would have the whole piece of paper packed with as much as would fit. Some of the designs in my work are directly copied from those guys, some are altered, and some are my own... all influenced by the "old timers". While the pieces on hankerchiefs were inspired from watching a prison documentary. The men were making incredible drawings with ball point pen on hankercheifs and trading them for Cinabuns, ramen noodles, and other shit like that. So I hooked a ballpoint pen up to a tattoo machine and started drawing.” |
| Paul Urich’s selected exhibitions include Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco; Space 1026, Philadelphia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands; Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco; 96 Gillespie Gallery, London. Uirch was the 2005 Bell Foundation for Cultural Development, Individual Grant Recipient. COLLECTIONS include Museum of Modern Art, NY (Library Archives - Hot and Cold complete publications) |
Rise of No Man's Land ballpoint pen and tattoo machine on handkerchief 21" x 25" |
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Ed, Eddie, and Paul gouache & arcylic on paper 25" x 31" |
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Thank You graphite & ballpoint pen on coffee stained paper 12" x 15" |
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Seeking Confucious graphite & ink on coffee stained paper 13" x 19" |
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Boobs marker, graphite, gouache on paper 25" x 21" |
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Take Me Back to Paradise marker, graphite, ballpoint pen, gouache on paper 25" x 21" |
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Owens Indian Princess ballpoint pen & marker on paper 12" x 15" |
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Willie Nelson marker, graphite, ballpoint pen, gouache 31" x 25" |
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Smash ballpoint pen and tattoo machine on handkerchief 21" x 25" |
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Amund Dietzel ballpoint pen and tattoo machine on handkerchief 21" x 25" |
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Pussy Bandit ballpoint pen on paper 12" x 15" |
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Jeffrey Bip marker, graphite, ballpoint pen, gouache 25" x 21" |
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Cobra Status ballpoint pen on paper 12" x 15" |
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Tiger Rose ballpoint pen and tattoo machine on handkerchief 21" x 25" |
