Digitally Mastered Front
Date2007
MediumGraphite, watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper
DimensionsSheet: 40 × 30 inches (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Framed: 50 × 40 × 15/16 inches (127 × 101.6 × 2.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor.
Object number2010.3.1
Copyright© Craig Drennen.
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Label TextBeginning in 2002, Atlanta-based artist Craig Drennen worked on the series Supergirl Project for five and half years. All the imagery is related in some way to the box-office failure of the 1984 film Supergirl. He largely took his references from the VHS and DVD packaging for the movie, which included the phrase "digitally mastered." Digitally Mastered Front and Digitally Mastered Back investigate how meaning changes when removed from the original context, but also reveals his interest in working in pairs, an intuitive process that he attributes to the translation of ideas in his work, stating, "I decided early on that I didn't feel my work could hold an enormous idea. But it can hold a simple idea, such as seeing the front of something and wondering what the back looks like."
