Michael Thorpe
Kareem's Goggles
paper piece made out of cardstock, color pencil and adhesive
12 x 10.75 in
unframed
signed
This work is a portrait of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the career leader in points in NBA history. I placed the word “goggles” over his goggles because they are iconic and I'm fascinated about how the viewer reinterprets the physical goggles. - Michael C. Thorpe
MICHAEL C THORPE, Kareem's Goggles
Michael C. Thorpe
Based in New York City
Education : 2016 Emerson College, Boston, MA
Selected Public Collections: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Michael C. Thorpe is a visual artist living and working out of New York, New York, with a primary focus in textiles. His mother, Susan Richards, taught him the art and craft of quilting. Thorpe is exploring the limitations of both social constructs and textiles by combining fabrics, imagery and language to evoke alternative perspectives on the human experience.