Title: Untitled
Material: oil on canvas
Size: oil on canvas
Year: 1990
We only kill each other. – Bugsy Siegel
“Untitled” started out as a portrait of Bugsy Siegel having a bad heir day and wound up as something like an Unknown Soldier of everyday life.
I chose to use putrid colors with names known only to Charon the ferryman, to suggest a cold, lifeless hospital basement room with way too much fluorescent lighting. Such colors could use the work, so I sometimes oblige them.
But I don’t know — I may have really painted myself into a coroner this time.