Having trained as a painter - and having lost access to a studio - painting became a distant act. In order to “relearn” how to paint and reinvigorate my painting practice, I set up a series of parameters in the Summer of 2016 to help make executing this series of paintings more tangible.
All of the paintings are made on mass-produced canvases, aligned vertically and reuse leftover or discarded acrylic paint from students in my 6-8th grade classroom. I create the works in a production-line-like setting repeating the same gimmicks of mark-making during a session.
The series will end when 100 paintings are completed.
PAC was created with the intentions of providing free artwork directly to community members. The goal of the project is to allow art to become accessible to all; something that is shared between and among people. The first PAC installation is located near the corner of N. Charles and W. Eager in Baltimore, Maryland.
Edition of 50 screenprints.
Edition of 50 screenprints.
Edition of 150 Risograph prints in collaboration with Jess Pegorsch.
Edition of 150 Risograph prints
Edition of 150 Risograph prints
drawings during meetings: collection 1
11" x 14"
Pencil, pen, marker, and highlighter on Post-It Notes
drawings during meetings: collection 2
11" x 14"
Pencil, pen, marker, and highlighter on Post-It Notes
drawings during meetings: collection 3
11" x 14"
Pencil, pen, marker, and highlighter on Post-It Notes
Pencil, pen, marker, and highlighter on Post-It Notes
untitled (connecting leftovers 1)
42" x 42"
Hand-stitched cotton towels, painted and stained with acrylic paint from student use.
untitled (connecting leftovers 2)
62" x 50"
Hand-stitched cotton towels, painted and stained with acrylic paint from student use.
untitled (stretching leftovers)
10" x 12" each
Stretched cotton towels, painted and stained with acrylic paint from student use.
untitled (making from making)
Installation: 50" x 22" x 78"
cardboard from student use, plaster gauze, acrylic and latex paint.
making from making: form 1
17" x 10" x 8"
mixed media
making from making: form 2
18" x 14" x 9"
mixed media
making from making #3
15" x 12" x 10"
mixed media
making from making #4
10" x 18" x 6"
Silent and listen are considered perfect anagrams of one another; rearranging and utilizing the original letters only once, to create two different words of the same length.
Anagrams as wordplay often become the synonym or antonym of their subject. I am interested in exploring the dualities of these two words through formal experimentation and play. They can become criticism. They can become questions. They are sincere.
When positioned next to one another, silent and listen, become reflective. One cannot fully listen without maintaining some element of silence and silence can allow one to listen more intently.
Visitors were also able to create their own “silent/listen” and “NO HATE. NO FEAR” screen prints on site.
Invited by Hermosa Walls, this non-permanent mural was completed during August 2017.
From Nicholas Kinsella, curator of Horses Two:
"In an enflamed social and political climate every action takes on expansive meaning. For Roadruck the acts of teaching and making art hold peculiar cultural significance - in his work, the two intersect to share space in both the classroom and the studio. This body of work repurposes classroom materials to create paintings that are simultaneously playful and critical, using media and content to create reflexive narratives around the empty aestheticism of zombie formalism. The paintings, created to the artists' preset parameters, are also experiments that invoke conversations about how a particularly vulnerable generation of young artists can acquire agency within an exclusionist and elitist art culture."
