Jason Robert Bell, Dramatis Personae, Alcove ( Nov.1- Jan. 5th, 2007/8)

547 w. 27th st. 6th fl. New York, New York www.alcove547.com

Dramatis Personae, 50 12x22 inches each, Acrylic, Color Laser Toner, India Ink, felt maker, glitter, liquid paper, glow-n-the dark paint, and colored sand, mounted on vellum with 400 metallic push pins.

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Dramatis Personae involves 100 archetypal characters from all aspects of our lives, history, literature, myth, popular culture, and all points in-between. In 1997 I began this project, a process now it is a retroactively collaborating with my self. All of the characters in Dramatis Personae exist within the same idealized landscape, leading to the experience that this is a single ever-changing entity that is my own selfhood.

Left to right starting from the top.

  1. The Golden Tree
  2. Screamin Jay Hawkins
  3. Brave
  4. Drummer
  5. Yuck The Worlds Ugliest Dog
  6. Marduke, The God of Law
  7. Mr. Smoker
  8. Deep Violet Fruit Ape
  9. Toy
  10. Leprechaun
  11. Jay Bo the Clown
  12. Quintet Quincy Queen
  13. Grammatological Saint
  14. The Timekiller
  15. The Slumberjack
  16. Windy
  17. The Destroyer
  18. Candlestick man
  19. Flapjack the Hare and Strawbaby
  20. Death
  21. Globe Man
  22. Britton Walters
  23. Fireman
  24. Clyde
  25. Grunt
  26. Blue Memmie
  27. United Snake of America
  28. Lou Reed
  29. Mephistopheles
  30. Elise
  31. Worthy Stinkweed
  32. John Henry
  33. Voltaton and Parasite
  34. Nude
  35. Fishing Fox
  36. The Turk
  37. Reichian Poppet
  38. Joan of Arc, 5000 A.D.
  39. Swami
  40. History and That Young Tom Edison
  41. What-ja-call-it
  42. #6, The Prisoner
  43. Yuri Gagarin
  44. The Hurty Gurty Man
  45. Hagar
  46. Mother and Child
  47. Moses
  48. Gargoyle
  49. Fleetfooted Foe
  50. Kindness
  51. Invisible
  52. Caveman Robot
  53. Lucifer Morningstar
  54. Zebediah Popper
  55. Clupis The Appalachian Lycanthrope
  56. Old Young Me
  57. Arthur Lee
  58. The Imp
  59. Ray Manos
  60. Gingerbreadman
  61. Hooded Monster
  62. Fisher King
  63. Shopper
  64. Hermes
  65. Mega Kachina
  66. Atlas
  67. Mao
  68. Four in One Angel
  69. Outhouseacus
  70. Hephaestus
  71. Solar Justice
  72. #78
  73. Atomic Man
  74. Wraith
  75. The Scarecrow
  76. Convict
  77. Scribble Scrabble
  78. Leonard Cohen
  79. Greater Lessthan
  80. Genesha
  81. Kitty Carmichael
  82. Thug
  83. Witch
  84. Searstower
  85. Ms. Pumpkin
  86. Warrior
  87. Little Brynhildr
  88. The Insect King
  89. Sungirl
  90. Mockturtle
  91. General Washington
  92. Maria, and the blue bird of happiness
  93. Melpomene
  94. Heracles
  95. Yeshua bin Yahweh
  96. Rhino
  97. The Doubtful Guest
  98. Leto Atreides II
  99. Lucky the Cat
  100. The Airwalker

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