Ed Roth creates artwork predominantly using stencils with mixed media. Recent works on vintage canvas army tarps are shown below.
His recent body of work, titled Dolly was cloned from a mammary gland /I will always love you explores cloning literally and figuratively.
Long fascinated and horrified with the story of “Dolly” the first cloned sheep, Ed Roth’s work represents this idea of a “new” creation copied from the original. Cloning, copying, duplicating, reusing and mimicking, recycling and appropriating…… From the use of old vintage tarps to left over paint, from icon to icon, old materials and new, long outdated rules of conformity and well worn cliches to yet another set of blindly followed societal rules…..this work uses images of the cloned sheep to mirror the ways in which we follow. Roth’s current work explores themes of cloning, duality, cognitive thought,and alteration. Is there anymore original? Or simply, on a utilitarian level is the clone – the stencil – a necessity?
A recent article on CoolHunting.com about his show can be viewed here
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photo above by Eric McNatt
Dolly the Sheep
48″ x 82″, Acrylic and fabric paints on vintage canvas tarp
Will Love with two Dolly
22″ x 30″, Acid free inks and acrylics on deckled archival cardstock
I Will Always Love You sentence diagram
20″ x 30″, Acid free inks and acrylics on deckled handmade paper
Three Dolly
22″ x30″, Acid free inks and acrylics on deckled archival cardstock
I Will Always Love You no diagram with one three Dollys
22″ x 30″, Acid free inks and acrylics on deckled handmade paper
Other works
Chief Joseph
48″ x 82″, Acrylic and fabric paints on vintage canvas tarp
Boxer
82″ x 48″, Acrylic and fabric paints on vintage canvas tarp
Obama
48″ x 48″, Acrylic and fabric paints on vintage canvas tarp