Factory Farms

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  • A painting of a dumpster filled with hundreds of small yellow chicks stacked atop one another, such that the dumpster only appears on the right side of the frame, where one of its walls can be seen, dark and imposing. In the bottom left of the frame, atop some of the chicks, which are mostly loose in the dumpster, is a plastic waste bag filled with more dead chicks.

Culled Male Chicks in a Dumpster

2009
Oil on Canvas
5′ x 3.5′ (60″ x 42″)

  • A detail from the painting “Culled Male Chicks in a Dumpster,” zoomed in on a few chicks, such that they become easier to distinguish one from the other, more individual and less collective.

Culled Male Chicks in a Dumpster Detail 1

2009
Oil on Canvas
5′ x 3.5′ (60″ x 42″)

  • A detail from the painting “Culled Male Chicks in a Dumpster,” zoomed in on a few chicks, such that they become easier to distinguish one from the other, more individual and less collective.

Culled Male Chicks in a Dumpster Detail 2

2009
Oil on Canvas
5′ x 3.5′ (60″ x 42″)

  • A detail from the painting “Culled Male Chicks in a Dumpster,” zoomed in on two particular chicks. One appears to be crying blood from a pitch-black pupil, while only the head of the other can be seen, crushed under the bodies of other culled chicks.

Culled Male Chicks in a Dumpster Detail 3

2009
Oil on Canvas
5′ x 3.5′ (60″ x 42″)

  • A painting of dozens of crates of chickens in a chicken truck. The chickens are hemmed in behind bars, some facing out and others lying down. Some of the pens are packed with chickens, while others are empty or contain just a single bird. Some of the bars have been pecked away at or ripped.

Chicken Truck

2008
Oil on canvas
10.5′ x 8′ (126″ x 96″)

  • A detail from the painting “Chicken Truck.”

Chicken Truck Detail

2008
Oil on canvas
10.5′ x 8′ (126″ x 96″)

  • A painting of a black dairy cow that has been downed, and is no longer able to stand. A yellow tag can be seen upon its side, and a label hangs from its right ear, which droops. The cow is splayed on the dirt  floor of what appears to be a barn. In front of it is  a metal slide that appears to be part of a larger machine.

Downed Dairy Cow

2008
Oil on canvas
5″ x 4″

  • A painting of dead calves lined up on a conveyor belt, moving through a slaughterhouse. Behind them is a shelf on which large bowls in which blood has collected and been drained from the cows can be seen. Blood coats the conveyor belt and the shelf.

Dead Calves on a Conveyor Belt

2008
Oil on canvas
5″ x 4″

  • A painting of dead chickens rigged up to a conveyor belt by their feet. Their bodies dangle in the air while they move through what is likely a slaughterhouse. Their feathers are covered in blood.

Chickens on a Conveyor Belt

2008
Oil on canvas
5″ x 4″

  • A painting of a baby lamb that has undergone mulesing, a process in which wool strips from the lamb’s breech are clipped off using shears. The lamb’s face points out of the painting towards the viewer, and its eyes are pitch-black. It is atop what appears to be a corroded metal shelf, and its legs are bound together. Blood covers its breech. At the top of the frame, behind the lamb that is the subject of the painting, another lamb’s bound legs can be seen.

Baby Lamb Undergoing Mulesing

2008
Oil on canvas
5″ x 4″

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