New Work

These three paintings add color to the monochrome through the shadows between the panel and the white exhibition wall. The panel's front consist of table salts embedded in layers of polymer resin. The backs are painted in fluorescent colors- one orange, one yellow, and one pink. These colors call attention to the space between the panel and the exhibition wall. This physicality of space and theatricality of the work are issues that continue to have relevance since they were prompted by the essay Art and Objecthood. Important to note, these works must be exhibited on a crisp, clean white wall to be viewed properly. The condition of the white wall is an imperative aspect of the work.

BMW Art Cars

A link to the complete collection of BMW art cars done by renown artists including Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and Olafur Eliasson. One day I would love the honor of creating an art car for BMW.

BMW Art Car Collection

This idea is particularly interesting to me because the dynamic of the art car changes when it is being raced. The conditions of the work then are either idle or charged. The art on the car masterly comes to life under the conditions of driving. This condition based work is something I am experimenting with in my own work. However, my conditions remain more specific to site versus kinetics.

Currently Reading

Continuing to expand my knowledge, I have recently been reading some very informative essays and writings on reductive/ objective art. Some of the essays recently read include: Situational Aesthetics by Victor Burgin, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art by Sol LeWitt, and Beware by Daniel Burren.

Summer Studio Space and Work in Progress

During the summer months, my studio is located at my home rather than the CIA. A summer set-up is necessary if I plan to produce work during the summer months. Below is a image of my summer studio space set-up. Also, there is an image of work in progress- the glow series.

Images From My Final Crit

Miniatures- Progress

I have recently been working on a series of two inch by two inch paintings. These petite paintings are monochromes and some are coated in polymer resin, much like my "larger" works. With these small paintings I am interested in the scale of the human figure to a painting the size of a jeweled broach. By working small, the viewer is forced to come closer to see the details in the piece. Also, these little paintings are a method of experimenting with a glow. I use fluorescent paints on the back of the small works. When floated off the wall, colored shadows appear like halos over these precious gems/ paintings.


The above image is one of twenty works sized at two inches completed.

Cigarette Butts Installation- Progress

For an installation, I am reacting to the piles of cigarette butts typically found in public transportation shelters and other trash items discarded to the ground outside. I find these trash piles are something common place and experienced by many folk out walking. Another commonality I have found amongst people is the discovery of something shiny, attractive, or compelling discarded accidentally or purposefully to the ground by another person.

I am creating hundreds of sparkly gold cigarette butts out of clay. These butts will then be dispersed among the piles of trash found on the ground. The aim is for people to notice the reflective clay butts, and then for the stranger to grab and come to possess these precious items. By doing so, the viewer will become more aware of the environment surrounding them, and continue to look for precious keepsakes amongst the mundane world.