September 22, 1975: John Torreano
John Torreano makes thick, jewel encrusted lozenge and cross shaped paintings. They are wild, decadent objects and I’ve never seen anything like them. While he shows us images of them, he talks about how he makes them: he buys lots of fake jewels- rubies and saphires then drills recessions into these long wooden armatures, he glues in the stones and then he paints around them with one colour of thick acrylic paint.
