Stein's Diary — MICHEL ALEXIS

Stein’s Diary

In this former series of paintings (1995), I used excerpts from a text by Gertrude Stein (The Birthday Book) and placed them into an imaginary diary, where next to nothing would happen.

Texts, markings, images respond to a world of confinement, turmoil, within a sour sense of the absurd.

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Stein's Diary 9
74 x74 inches 188x188cm
oil, graphite, gesso, medium on canvas
1995

Cherubini
74x74 inches 188x188cm
oil, gesso, plaster on canvas 1995

I am very...
74x74 inches 188x188cm
oil, gesso on canvas 1995

Melanctha
74x74 inches 188x188cm
oil, gesso, ink transfer on canvas 1994

Stein's Diary 11
74x74 inches 188x188cm
oil, gesso on canvas 1994

Stein's Diary 4
74x74 inches 188x188cm
oil, graphite, gesso, ink transfer, medium on canvas 1994

Stein's Diary 1
48x74 inches 122x188cm
oil, gesso on canvas 1995

Stein's Diary 3
68x54 inches 174x138cm
oil, gesso on printed fabric 1995

Stein's Diary 8
74x74 inches 188x188cm
oil, gesso on canvas 1995