Devin Troy Strother
A rapturous energy skids across the surface of Devin Troy Strother‘s paper collages. It’s dancing a deadly jitterbug with a sense of piercing anxiety that threatens to tear the work in half. This clash of violence and exuberance plays out in geometry, character and color, across stunning compositions– high-def transmissions from the deepest layers of Strother’s dizzying imagination. Take a moment to check out Evan J. Garza’s interview with this rad L.A. artist over at New American Paintings, in which Strother discusses the origin of his works’ casually poetic and sometimes hilarious titles:
The titles come before the work is made. I have a book that I keep of funny shit I hear or comments that I hear that are kind of interesting. It starts with a phrase or a title, and I try to genrate an image that relates to the whole narrative, this world that I’m trying to make. The titles come from things I hear in rap songs or things I hear family members say, things friends say.
The Block Is Hot
You Can Run But You Can’t Hide From Your Baby’s Mama (triptych)
California Dreaming/Love
Shantay and Shandray
We Caught Dat Nigga Slippin
Six Black John Baldessaris Water the Plants, While Six Niggas Build A Triangle and a Bunch of Other Niggas Watch
A Bunch of Niggas in the Dark
Colors
Wilda Inna ’89
Tear Down the Dancehall
We Be Chopping Them Forest Down
Only Colored Men Shall Enter the Colored Church
It’s Just Us Versus Them
gotta love Devin’s work, its super good!!
I googled his name and came across this along with a really dope interview he did on some other site.
http://thesuperslice.com/?p=1722