Tucker Neel

Tucker Neel http://tuckerneel.com/ Tucker Neel artwork, information, and contact information en Copyright 2008, Tucker Neel Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:31:03 -0400 Bandage Memorials: Untitled (Lincoln Memorial Sculpture) <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/18/18626.gif" alt="Untitled (Lincoln Memorial Sculpture) from the Bandage Series" height="636" width="500" /> 2008 ink on paper collage on board 11 x 14" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1094/5150 Campaign Buttons: Bush Cheney 2000 <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19298.gif" alt="Bush Cheney 2000" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5308 Campaign Buttons: Bush Quayle 92 <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19299.gif" alt="Bush Quayle 92" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5309 Campaign Buttons: Carter Mondale <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19301.gif" alt="Carter Mondale" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5310 Campaign Buttons: Clinton Gore 1992 <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19302.gif" alt="Clinton Gore 1992" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5311 Campaign Buttons: Dole Kemp 1996 <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19303.gif" alt="Dole Kemp 1996" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5312 Campaign Buttons: Dukakis Bentsen <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19304.gif" alt="Dukakis Bentsen" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5313 Campaign Buttons: Gore Lieberman 2000 <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19305.gif" alt="Gore Lieberman 2000" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5314 Campaign Buttons: Johnson Humphrey <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19306.gif" alt="Johnson Humphrey" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5315 Campaign Buttons: Kennedy <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19307.gif" alt="Kennedy" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5316 Campaign Buttons: McCarthy <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19308.gif" alt="McCarthy" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5317 Campaign Buttons: Mondale Ferraro <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19309.gif" alt="Mondale Ferraro" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5318 Campaign Buttons: Nixon <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19310.gif" alt="Nixon" height="682" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5319 Campaign Buttons: Nixon Agnew <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19311.gif" alt="Nixon Agnew" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5320 Campaign Buttons: Reagan Bush 84 <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19312.gif" alt="Reagan Bush 84" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5321 Campaign Buttons: Roosevelt <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19313.gif" alt="Roosevelt" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5322 Campaign Buttons: Roosevelt Wallace <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19314.gif" alt="Roosevelt Wallace" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5323 Campaign Buttons: Roosevelt Wallace <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19315.gif" alt="Roosevelt Wallace" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5324 Campaign Buttons: Taft <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19316.gif" alt="Taft" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5325 Campaign Buttons: Teddy Roosevelt <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19317.gif" alt="Teddy Roosevelt" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5326 Campaign Buttons: Teddy Roosevelt <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19318.gif" alt="Teddy Roosevelt" height="688" width="500" /> 2008 coffee stain, graphite, and watercolor on paper 9x12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1128/5327 Imagine What Abraham Lincoln Looks Like…It’s Kinda Like That: Imagine What Abraham Lincoln Looks Like…It’s Kinda Like That, <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19295.gif" alt="Imagine What Abraham Lincoln Looks Like…It’s Kinda Like That" height="676" width="500" /> 2008 Adhesive Glitter Sheet on paper 8.75 x 12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1127/5307 Pushing The Washington Monument: Pushing The Washington Monument <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19320.png" alt="Pushing The Washington Monument" height="380" width="500" /> 2008 Digital Video 1:45:24 (loop) <a href="http://tuckerneel.com//static/dyn-files/2/2122.mov">Media File (.mov 2.3 MB)</a> http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1129/5328 Bandage Memorials: Untitled (Jefferson Memorial Sculpture) <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19283.gif" alt="Untitled (Jefferson Memorial Sculpture)" height="627" width="500" /> 2008 Ink on paper collage on matboard 11 x 14" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1094/5299 Bandage Memorials: Untitled (Washington Memorial Sculpture) <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19282.gif" alt="Untitled (Washington Memorial Sculpture)" height="633" width="500" /> 2008 Ink on paper collage on matboard 11 x 14" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1094/5298 Campaign: Candidate <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19287.gif" alt="Candidate" height="507" width="400" /> 2008 Ink on paper collage 19 x 24" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1124/5301 Campaign: Conventioneers <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19285.gif" alt="Conventioneers" height="408" width="500" /> 2008 Ink on paper collage on matboard 17 x 14" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1124/5300 Campaign: Hugging A Delusion <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19288.gif" alt="Hugging A Delusion" height="375" width="500" /> 2008 ink on paper 15.25 x 11.25" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1124/5302 Campaign: Peace / Victory <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19289.jpeg" alt="Peace / Victory" height="657" width="500" /> 2008 ink and crystals on paper 11.25 x 15 http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1124/5303 Incomplete Washington Monument: Incomplete Washington Monument <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19294.gif" alt="Incomplete Washington Monument" height="686" width="500" /> 2008 Glitter on paper 8.75 x 12” http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1126/5306 Monument Combinations: Statue of Liberty over The Grand Canyon <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19292.jpeg" alt="Statue of Liberty over The Grand Canyon" height="332" width="500" /> 2008 crayon on paper collage on paper 30x20.25" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1125/5305 Monument Combinations: USS Dwight D. Eisenhower over The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19291.jpeg" alt="USS Dwight D. Eisenhower over The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument" height="335" width="500" /> 2008 crayon on paper collage on paper 30x20.25" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1125/5304 The Tallest Buildings In The World: The Tallest Buildings In The World <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19334.jpeg" alt="The Tallest Buildings In The World" height="638" width="500" /> 2008 Ink on paper collage ad graphite on mat board 19x24" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1135/5340 Log Cabin: Untitled (Log Cabin) <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19335.gif" alt="Untitled (Log Cabin)" height="610" width="500" /> 2008 Lincoln Logs, glitter, adhesive 6x10x9" http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1136/5341 Party Animals: Party Animals <img border="0" src="http://tuckerneel.com/static/dyn-images/19/19337.gif" alt="Party Animals" height="335" width="500" /> 2008 Graphite on tracing paper installation Variable http://tuckerneel.com/work/view/1137/5342 News: Tucker Neel: Monuments to the Pres(id)ent October 3 - November 8, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday October 3, 2008 6-9PM <a href="http://www.snowgallery.net/contact.html">Snow Gallery</a> 1517 Dallas Avenue Nashville, TN 37204 615.386.9485 info@snowgallery.net In a nod to the political season, Snow Gallery is pleased to present Monuments to the Pres(id)ent, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Tucker Neel. The exhibition runs from Friday, October 3, 2008 – November 8, 2008 with an opening reception on Friday, October 3, 2008, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. As an artist concerned with the how memory and memorialization influence subjective and national identity, Neel reflects on the current political landscape with new work questioning notions of presidential leadership, choice, allegiance, ideology, and, specifically, the iconography associated with political debate and electioneering. This show grew out of the artist's interest in tying together the works of William Hogarth (1697-1764) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), two artists whose prints he curated from the gallery's extensive collection. Neel created work in dialog with these artists' enduring prints, tying an intentionally tenuous thread between Hogarth's political caricature's and Piranesi's imagined monuments. Taking these works as a jumping off point, Neel created multiple drawings, prints, and installations, incorporating detailed images of bandaged politicos, reworked campaign buttons, replicated political cartoons, moved national monuments and frustrating flower arrangements. With each of his new works Neel investigates the sometimes-overlooked formal qualities of politicized objects and images that influence national debate and shape our collective identity. In coordination with this exhibit Neel will be the first artist-in-residence at the James E. Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University. Working with faculty and students, he will create a limited edition print on The Stones River Press’ replica of an 18th century printing press. Neel will also present a lecture on his work to students and faculty at the University (date and time yet to be determined). This exhibition is purposefully situated in a very specific political and social context, occurring in the heart of the 2008 Presidential election. With one of the presidential debates just around the corner from the gallery, this exhibition creates a complimentary, open-ended forum, a place to reflect not just on the current political climate, but on how our present-day actions and beliefs are tied up in objects, images, and memories from the past. For more information about Tucker Neel and to view his projects visit tuckerneel.com Snow Gallery offers a unique mix of historical and contemporary art juxtaposed to bridge eras and cultures. Rotating current exhibits complement an outstanding collection of rare prints, textiles, and other arts and crafts from around the world. To receive print quality images or answers to questions please contact the gallery. http://tuckerneel.com/news/view/587 Press: THE TENNESSEAN-"Tucker Neel explores how political iconography shapes our individual and collective identities." Sept. 29, 2008 For his new show, Monuments to the Pres(id)ent, Los Angeles artist Tucker Neel curated an assortment of 18th-century prints from the collection of Snow Gallery and then responded to them with works of his own. Fascinated with how memory and memorabilia shape individual and collective consciousness, Neel used things such as political cartoons and images of national monuments to create drawings, prints and installations. The works provide commentary on how political iconography shapes our sense of who we are and what matters to us. Along with his solo exhibition at Snow Gallery, which opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Neel will be the first artist-in-residence at the James E. Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University this fall. Collaborating with faculty and students, he will create a limited edition print on the replica of an 18th-century printing press at The Stones River Press. Advertisement My art practice investigates the memorializing impulses underpinning personal and national attempts to solidify both individual and collective memory in a material form. My work attempts to ask what makes events, people and ideas memorable and unchanging. I utilize project-specific media, primarily drawing, sculpture, video, installation and the Internet, to highlight and transform the unrecognized, overlooked and spontaneous traces of memory left behind by human experience. I am fascinated by the rehearsed texts, hidden objects, lapses in judgment, jumbled narratives and creases in history that implore us to remember, and allow us to forget, how we got to the present time in the first place. For this exhibition, I was invited by Snow Gallery to curate a selection of prints from their extensive collection and then make work in response to these choices. After much consideration, I selected two distinct groups of work by seemingly disparate artists, William Hogarth (1697-1764) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). I became fascinated with Hogarth's An Election Entertainment series, a fantastic suite of etchings lambasting the corruption of politicians and the gullibility of a voting populace. These works are bubbling over with ludicrously debauched figures imbibing, politicking and cavorting in extreme, almost inconceivable situations. They are not picture-perfect renditions, but some of the first examples of political cartoons. And like all political cartoons, they stem from an unabashed desire to subjectively depict the politics of the present — in this case, Hogarth's present. After researching Piranesi's practice, I discovered that his astoundingly detailed renderings of crumbling Roman architecture were often faked, that the vistas in his pictures were collages of different sites, crammed together in pleasing, yet impossible, pairings. During the 18th century, his work provided wealthy European tourists the most popular vision of the Roman Empire, a time revered by travelers immersed in their own colonial and imperial ambitions. It struck me that Piranesi's monuments derive sentimental and political import from a place that, like in Hogarth's work, is imagined and cobbled together from subjective interpretations. Creating work inspired by these great printmakers gave me license to play with my own imagined take on the present political environment, reassemble the accoutrements perennially associated with political campaigns and the office of the presidency. While the individual works . . . are admittedly heterogeneous in both form and content, they each evince an imagined, fantastical or subjective take on questions of party ideology, allegiance, leadership and historical uncertainty. Sometimes subjects overlap, sometimes they don't. Some work calls attention to an impossible situation contextualized by a political reality. Others mine the easily understood lexicon of nationalist memorials and monuments, reworking these objects' implied meanings. Select works also explore the nightmare/fantasy oscillation that accompanies campaigning for/against candidates and the anticipation and anxiety about the future attendant to this devotion. This exhibition doesn't attempt to make a statement for or against a particular candidate or party, but instead provides a springboard for a dispersed conversation about how we hope and fear, remember and forget, discuss and remain silent, come together and alienate ourselves as participants, both willing and unwilling, in a politically charged environment that is fragile, that makes up and re-imagines its history as it goes along. — INTERVIEW BY BILL FRISKICS-WARREN, STAFF WRITER http://tuckerneel.com/press/view/1509 Press: LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN - "Take a look-see at Looky See," Sept. 11, 2008 2008 Madeline Harmon Issue date: 9/11/08 Section: Entertainment For those of you looking to really squeeze those last few drops out of summer, head over to the Ben Maltz Gallery on the campus of Otis College of Art and Design for the last weekend of their summer exhibition entitled "Looky See: A Summer Show." "Looky See" features both representational and abstract work by twenty-nine dynamic artists. Many of these artists are from Los Angeles who have captured their ideas using everything from intricately cut paper-threaded together, to ornately arranged beads imbedded in a large foam sculpture. Aside from the two breathtaking installations featured in the main room, a few pieces definitely worth waking up early on Saturday for are the vibrant watercolor and acrylic paintings "Potentilla Multijuga" and "Romulea Sulphrea" by the talented Penelope Gottlieb. These two vivid images offer a different perspective with every new glance. Otis alum Tucker Neel presents a comical outlook on art, government structures, and life in general to those who lack a refined artistic eye. Neel's set of quirky ink drawings on notebook paper peek into his fascinating mind and even provide whimsical phrases to reflect on, such as, "If you are going to have children train them to become lucid dreamers." On the whole, "Looky See" is an enjoyable collection of assorted artworks for everyone's taste. The show is free of charge and the closing reception will take place on Saturday, Sept. 13 from 3 to 5 p.m. http://tuckerneel.com/press/view/1459