Intersection: Philadelphia Museum of Art Series

2005 - 2010
1,162 digital photographs and sound. Three light boxes and stacked prints on acetate.
An investigation into the credibility, authenticity, and credence people lend to a specific place based on the intersection of time, space, and presence. For this project I took photographs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art facade over the course of five years from the same vantage point everyday that I worked there and recorded the sound of visitors and workers moving through the building each day. 

Catalyst 1,542,384

2017 - 2018
A performance/installation currently with 1,542,384 hand cut slices of bicycle inner tubes. During the performance or anytime after viewers are encouraged to sit and take pieces from the pile of cut tubes, count how many they remove, record the number, sign, and date the ledger. I count each slice as I cut and keep a separate record of how many slices are added. The number of slices change with each performance as viewers take pieces and I add.

Altered State Series

Altered States 1: Altar of the Passion (3864)
Follower of Pieter Coeke Van Alest, c. 1532-35
2016
Postcards, 3864 pin holes and light box.

Altered States 2: Andy Warhol (3331)
Alice Neel, 1970
2016
Postcards, 3331 pin holes and light box.

Altered States 3: The Bucintori at the Molo on Ascension Day (3902)
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), c. 1745
2016
Postcards, 3902 pin holes and light box. 

Sensory Pod Permutation Prints

2017
Mono prints, water based block print ink on sumi-paper.
18 x 25 inches.

Sensory Pods, Permutation #1 (2,002)

Pirate Contemporary Art, Lakewood, Colorado, 2016 - 2017
4 triangular rooms (90 x 90 x 90 inches each), 4 CCTV surveillance cameras, 4 LED monitors, 2,002 bicycle inner tubes, and sound.

Altared State (632,018)

Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, Colorado, 2015 - 2018
5040 postcards, clear acetate, hanging frame, light, and sound.

5,040 key words related to the New Testament and Passion of Christ that are pin hole punched into each card. 632,018 total pin holes. Three 8x8x12 foot towers lite from inside.

Postcard: Altarpiece with Scenes of the Passion
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, permanent collection. The altar was made in Antwerp, Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium), Europe, c. 1535. The paintings are attributed to a follower of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Netherlandish (active in Antwerp), 1502 - 1550. The sculptures are attributed to the Flemish workshop of Master of the Oplinter Altarpiece.

Towards a Better Existence

2007 – 2009
Approximately 3,000 artist statements, 668 laser printed pages and sound.

The project title originates from a statement by artist Lawrence Weiner who said, “but we can’t judge anybody’s intent. We have to take it for granted that each person making art has a benevolent approach towards it. That each revolution is leading towards somebody’s aspiration towards a better existence. You’ve got to take that as a priori.”

For this project I noticed that artists who use a first person point of view, I and my, are taking genuine ownership for their ideas and art. Each sentence, extracted from the original artist statement, becomes part of an enhanced collective experience. The accompanying sound is of 69 different voices, left channel saying I and the right channel saying my. Each page was gridded into columns and if an I or my fell into that column the voice assigned to that column was activated or scored.

I Believe, I Think, I Make: Interview Series

Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado, 2013 - 2014
Transcribed parts of sentences that begin with 'I' from books listed below. Sound is a digitally
altered reading of the text displayed.

American Artists on Art: From 1940 to 1980 by Ellen H. Johnson, 1982
Art Talk The Early 80's by Jeanne Siegel, 1988
Michael Auping: 30 Years, Interviews and Outtakes, 2007
Conversations with Contemporary Photographers by Umbrage Editions, 2005
Conversing with Cage by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988
Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne, 1987
Everywhere and All at Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07 by Roselee Goldberg, 2009
For The Birds John Cage by Daniel Charles, 1976
A Brief History of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2008
Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York by Judith Plch Richards, 2004
Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music by Joan Retallack, 1996

Paintings 2011 - 2012

 

(left) Red and Yellow Capsule, 2011, acrylic, pencil, modeling paste and chrome spray paint on wood.15 x 20 inches.

 

(right) Thirty One Lines of Equal Width, 2012, acrylic and chrome spray paint on canvas. 21 x 27 inches.

(left) Forty Two Lines of Different Width, 2012, acrylic and chrome spray paint on canvas. 24 x 36 inches.

 

(right) Ten Vertical and One Horizontal Space with Relief, 2012, acrylic, modeling paste, and chrome spray paint on canvas. 20.5 x 24.25 inches.

 

(left) Eulerian Circles Using Two Different Diameters, 2012, acrylic, modeling paste, paper, and chrome spray paint on canvas. 24 x 36 inches.

(right) Decagon in Two Spaces, 2011, acrylic, pencil, modeling paste, and chrome spray paint on canvas.22 x 34 inches.