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Why the Sledgehammer Face Clown Series?

The Sledgehammer Clown Series

When I discovered the mark a Sledgehammer can make with paint only a few short months ago I was truly awe inspired by such a violent event on canvas; I paired the newly found brush stroke with the image of a clowns face to give it weight and humor as a finished work. Clowns represented in visual culture are the sad victims of the mark featured in my latest series called “Sledgehammer Face Clowns”.

It’s an interesting story how I got the idea to paint with a Sledgehammer; I bought a sledgehammer out of sheer anger one morning, the previous night I received a hate message scratched on my door after leaving the neighbors yet another dog barking note. I was at the point where I was considering banging the door open and rescuing the animal myself instead of hearing it bark all day while the owners were obviously neglecting the issue.

The Sledgehammer sat in my studio for a coup...

The Sledgehammer Clown Series - Chris Crewe Clowns represented in visual culture throughout history are the focus of this series. I comb through google images to find historical representations of these characters, what I find range from carnival clowns as giant metal signs (sometimes with bullet holes), to rescued paint by number “crying clowns” from the 1950s found on eBay. As a child I remember finding my mother's collection of sad clown paintings stored in a chest in our basement, the clown represented as a man in contemplation, often shown reading a newspaper or holding a Pansy in tattered clothes, I remember loving their atmosphere and comic tragedy. The imagery is updated by using the thick black line of a graffiti...

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