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DEB SOKOLOW

You tell people that you're working really hard on things these days 2010 graphite, ink, acrylic, correction fluid, collage on 5 panels 7 ft tall x 25 ft wide commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
			You tell people that you’re working really hard on things these days, a large-scale, film noir-style narrative drawing, focuses on both mundane and nefarious activities occurring in and around the artist studio building of Sokolow’s alter-ego, “The Paranoid Narrator”. These activities merge fact and fiction and are loosely based on real-life events that have previously happened or are happening in Sokolow’s studio building and its immediate environment in Chicago. Occurrences such as an encounter with an artist-nemesis, freight-train hobos, a disappearing notebook and the discovery of a meth lab nearby are included and embellished. Presented to viewers through floor plans, diagrams, illustrations and hand-drawn text, the piece features The Paranoid Narrator’s obsessive inner-dialogue and running commentary on the frustrations of making art.

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Photo by James Prinz, taken on May 17, 2010, one week before the final revision. Click on image for a readable version (7 mb)

 

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