This year, I'm participating in Deep Ellum Open Studios by offering canvas prints of some of my recent digital paintings. They are priced at $50 to $75 for curbside pickup by appointment outside my studio at 3800 Commerce Street. Available at Strauss paintings - Canvas Prints
Due to Covid-19, since March I've mostly been painting digitally at home. After about 35 digital paintings (please see my instagram), I feel as though I'm starting to get a grip on the medium. In some ways it's easier and some ways more awkward than oil painting. Digital painting has led me to work in layers and most recently to wanting to work with layered imagery. As an outcome of my media-addled mind, I'm happy to let content collide and leave meaning in suspension.
The background of this painting is based on a famous Gregory Crewdson photo of Pittsfield, Mass. and the foreground is based on a photo of survivors of the Beirut dock explosion in August. The title of this one comes from the tee shirt.
