Blue Face – Red Eyes

Ralph Griffin

1990

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Crucifixion, Annie Tolliver, paint on wood board
This black and white photograph represents a closely cropped detail of a rock and surrounding pebbles. The rock is white, but darkened in areas where it is wet.
Wiley has diagonally bisected this composition into a heavily painted upper section of dense patterns, and a lower section in which he drew on the raw canvas in pencil, creating a vast network of doodles, notes, visual puns, and diagrams.
Portrait of Richard F. Howard, William W. S. Wilson, oil on board