Mark DeMuro Pig Race Series Page

Pig Race Series The Pig Races Series is a loose narrative built around a fictitious sporting event. The series incorporates scenes from the event, portraits of the jockeys, and medals and trophies. The racers run through gates and soar over jumps that derive from croquet and equestrian courses. As in real life, the action of the pigs is driven by the pursuit of the promised reward, the apple. The various allegorical hurdles represent challenges we all face. Sometimes there is a play between the concept of mathematical perfection and the vagaries of everyday life. Sometimes the compositions incorporate the golden section. Sometimes there is a diagram imposed over the image. These measured hi-jinks express the way things can be perfectly planned in the abstract, but are subject to change as they materialize, as unpredictable in their outcome as the results of a race. All works © Mark DeMuro. Click on images to enlarge
Pig Races II 1990	Number Six at the Step-Over Gate 1999	At the Start (Pig Tricks) 1997	Slow and Sometimes Moving Jump

The Prompter 2002	Approaching the Monkey Gate 2002	Right Away Bettys Pig Was Trouble 2002	Venus Caught in a Merger 2003

Going Over a Slow and Sometimes Moving Jump 1998	Charlotte at the Pig Races (study) 1997	Charlotte at the Monkey Gate 1997	Passing the Baton 2002

Pig Tricks 1997	Archimedes Fulcrum Jump 2004	George and the Dragon 1996	George and the Dragon II 2002

Jockeys - The Fix 2001	Jockey with a Plan 2002	Duck Hat 1998	Jockey in a Hermes Hat 2001

Balance Training 2002	Jockey (Wink) 1999	Jockey (Apple) 1996	Jockey (Mike) 1991

Bronze Medal 2002	Silver Medal 2002	Gold Medal 2002	Best in Season 2002

Jockey (study) 1995	But Daisy was No Ordinary Pig 1996