John Gintoff

Call It A Rap

Inspired by: John Willis, Recycled Realities 1

drawn-on inkjet print

22″ x 17″

2023

In today’s awareness of how recycling can possibly alleviate the world’s trash problem, Willis’ photo seems appropriate. He is not only taking a photo. He is taking a photo of refuse, and refuse that contains a photograph from the front page of the New York Times. This photograph is of a painting stolen from the Louvre. The rest of his photo is of bundled newsprint. My initial collage is comprised of images that I have either “recycled”, appropriated from the internet or I have personally shot. This group of images is then wrapped and bundled by the colored lines of various widths that have I have drawn over them. One of the images is of the house that the artist Mike Kelly grew up in, which he had replicated and built in a lot in downtown Detroit.

John Gintoff

Evidence of what is what.

Sculpture

18″ x 14″ x 4″

2023

What happens when I work 3 dimensionally? What happens if I leave out the shoe? What happens when the box is closed? What happens when I’m not around anymore? What is an adverb, a noun, a verb, an adjective, a preposition? What is what?

John Gintoff

mole cul

sculpture

12″ x 6″ x 6″

2022

Comprised of molecule model, mini skateboard and collaged photographic figure in bell jar. A diversion from my usually 2-D work combining my interest in skateboards, the nude and molecular science.

John Gintoff

koochoor

drawn on inkjet print

11″ x 22″

2022

The Russian word for couture is drawn over the original collage.

John Gintoff

Frookty

Inspired by: Justin Walker, Daddy Bruce

inkjet print collage

36″ x 24″

2024

These images are part of an ongoing exploration that I have been conducting for the past two years. Originally the marks were randomly drawn over the collages employing different colors, widths, and transparencies responding to the shapes beneath them. After dabbling with this procedure, I decided to do a series of images which were loosely based on A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. In these images I decided that the title of the image which had been predetermined would be written over the image using the above technique. In this way the image’s title would become an actual part of the image.