Location: United States
Law Blank is a mixed-media artist primarily focusing on the use of GLITTER as a fine are medium. Law's bold images focus on several themes, from Identity, mortality, and pop culture from the Cold War to present day.
Law's glitter paintings have been collected internationally and continues his work in his Greater Philadelphia Studio.
This work spans the body of glitter paintings Law has produced. While glitter can be the singular medium for most of the work, Law pushes the boundaries by incorporating traditional painting, mixed media, and assemblage to further the narrative of this work.
It dawned on me, as I started seeing more and more astronauts in my work, that something about the image of a human (presumably) floating in space, really crystalizes the notion that identity is not as complex as we make it out to be. This has had a direct impact on how I portray identity in my work; be it astronaut, brain, skeleton, etc, it all boils down to the fact that our identity, at its core, is not relevant. We are objects performing function on a small rock in the vast universe. Humbling. Lost Information is about giving up the ego of identity, to be in our skin but not let it define us, to understand that we are truly insignificant accept in the moment that we accept our insignificance and truly live, without baggage of the past, desire of the future, or despite the present.
Also, I thought it was a really badass image...so there's that too.
Ethereal plunge into a full glitter painting. Using unconventional materials to portray an other-worldly scene of beauty and calm. The mermaid captures the still of being underwater, or in a dream.
Remembering a time when exploring marshland, tall grasses, and cornfields was a childhood pastime, this painting explores the horrors that lurk just below the surface. When lost in this environment, you become the thing that is "out of place" and the natural inhabitants recoil. Pondering identity is very similar to exploring dense marshland, it is murky, ill-defined, and a bit frightening, but the experience is always enriching.
This work is glitter on paper, in a shallow shadowbox frame with frosted glass, with the word "SPUTNIK" and an image the Sputnik satellite and a radio tower frosted in the glass. This frosting creates a very focused view on the glitter the comes through, and frames the context of the image under.
I have always been fascinated with the Sputnik satellite...not only because it was so mind-boggling that this could exist and be shot in space, but it looked like something right out of a Sci-fi comic book, or H.G. Wells novel.
This grouping of work, which I am calling COVERT/OVERT, touches upon so many things that were happening culturally and politically in the 1960s. There was a huge counter-culture, fashion culture, and all wrapped up in a bow with a nice side of Cold War.
This work is glitter on paper, in a shallow shadowbox frame with frosted glass, with the words "SKIN DEEP" and an image of a circa 1960s Russian military knife on the glass. This frosting creates a very focused view on the glitter the comes through, and frames the context of the image under.
This image from a fashion magazine reminded me of the iconic scene from The Usual Suspects. Espionage had become so engrained in the culture of both the US and Soviet Union, that women were being recruited to gain information, at any cost. Skin deep is the unfortunate extreme these players went to for country.
This grouping of work, which I am calling COVERT/OVERT, touches upon so many things that were happening culturally and politically in the 1960s. There was a huge counter-culture, fashion culture, and all wrapped up in a bow with a nice side of Cold War.
“LOST INFORMATION”
“THE MERMAID”
“AMIDST THE TALL GRASSES”
“THE FLOW”
“SPUTNIK”
“SKIN DEEP”
