Theo
DeHart

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. Handwritten confessions cover the surface beneath layers of collage, paint, and large painted text -- legible enough to read, buried enough to deny. Currently on view in the Mix It Up group exhibition at Ashton Art Gallery in San Diego. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. Layered paint, collage, and asemic writing build a dense surface beneath large-scale confessional text. The figure below the text is present but obscured -- visible only if you look. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. A large black form anchors a dense surface of layered paint, asemic writing, and collage in pink, yellow-green, and gray. The title is the confession the surface won't quite make. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. A fragmented figure -- eyes buried, mouth exposed -- emerges from a pale surface layered with collage, paint, and handwritten text. The face is present but blocked. The mouth speaks anyway. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. A vivid magenta figure floats above three hand-drawn yellow skulls on a white surface built up from collage, paint, and layered fragments. The color is hot and the mood is not. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. A large oval face dominates the surface -- eyeless, open-mouthed, surrounded by ghostly loops, handwritten fragments, and small figures at the margins. The face is present and absent at the same time. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. A crudely drawn smiling face rendered in red sits at the center of a layered surface of collage, paint, and gestural text. The smile and the words don't agree with each other. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. Deep navy and pale gray divide the surface, with buried collage, gestural line work, and faint figurative forms visible beneath layers of paint. The figure is present but dissolving. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media collage by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. Made directly on a USPS Priority Mail flat rate envelope, the work layers fragmented bodies, reversed text, postage stamps, and found imagery into a surface that uses the language of delivery and tracking against images of women, power, and desire. The substrate is the subject. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. A bug-eyed demon grins over a handwritten confession about the indignity of algorithmic life. The surface is pink and agitated. The joke is real. Inquire for availability and pricing.

An original mixed media work by Oceanside, California artist Theo DeHart. The title work of the series. A chalk demon outline sits over a dark field of handwritten confession -- fears, desires, self-recrimination rendered illegible by accumulation. Beside it, torn collage and painted text name the whole project. The demon is the logo. The text is the work. Part of the ongoing "So Much Nothing" series. Inquire for availability and pricing.