Mean Gene

Mean Gene, 30 cm x 30 cm, 12" x 12", 2017 is painted on a 1/4" MDF panel mounted on a 1/2" plywood panel with a French Cleat for hanging. Mean Gene was painted with urethane and acrylic binders, pigments in dispersal water and resin. Mean Gene has a reflective resin finish.

The title comes from a 1980 Captain Beefheart song called, Dirty Blue Gene.

She’s swinging a sponge on the end of a string
Don’t you wish you never met her? [x4]
She’s not bad
She’s just genetically mean
Dirty Blue Gene
Dirty [x3]
Dirty Blue Gene
She’s…
Not…
Bad…