The Catalogue of Errors diptych paintings emulate the double page format of auction catalogues. The text element, made as a silkscreen, is always on the left side and on the right is Graff’s painted representation of an iconic artwork. However, the two sides never match up as one would expect. The artist is interchanging names, titles, and ideas from one artwork to another, like a crazy museum, reflecting Sigmund Freud’s concept of ‘free association’. As Graff explains: ‘I am drawn to the tension and irony that is created through these juxtapositions. When you see the artwork, it instantly strikes a familiar chord, but after reading the text, a disorientation occurs. It makes us reconsider the painting in a new way, however familiar or iconic it may be.’ 

 

 

 

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