Lenticular Text

The work for this series was, for the most part, completed for a show I was accepted for in the IMAGINE Museum in St Petersburg. Since the Museum is really a glass art museum, I was accepted due to the fact that the lenticular lenses were initially made of glass, and for that reason, made the largest part of the show lenticulars. When the owner of the museum saw some of the oil paintings, they wanted the visitors to see them too, so it was a major compliment to include oils in the show.I wanted a good variety of subject matter. I started with variations of Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring, which turned out to be 3 iterations of the classic, known to my viewers as the blue ladies. The museum wanted a lenticular of my Dream FLoral painting, but it was not working well, and I designed 3 floral works just for the show, which came out spectacular. I wanted to have a few show stoppers, so I produced my largest lenticulars to date, The Moon and Earth Goddesses. These six-foot LED backlit lenticulars have a depth and detail that looks like you can walk into them. The LED backlighting on all the pieces adds color and contrast that is unavailable to normal painted pigments. Sometime into the show, I produced my Lenticular masterpiece IMAGINE: Peace. IT stands over six feet tall and 4.5ft wide to produce an effect that needs to be seen to be believed. In fact, it is one of the primary reasons that many visitors, whether art neophytes or world-traveled aficionados, exclaimed, "I've never seen anything like this; it is amazing." While I have shown everything here as a lenticular, actually, 5 of the images were painted.