Barriers Art Show

Date
March, 2009
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News

I will be showing new work with two of my good friends and respected peers, Mickey Kay and David Whitaker.

It is titled Barriers, opening reception at the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley on March 16th, 2009, 4pm–7pm.
Please come.
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Chairs

Materials
Screenprint, oil, acrylic on wood
Dimensions
47" x 81"
Date
March, 2009
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Work

The chairs are rendered intangible, only murky clouds of color and texture. The evidence of their existence remains in their printed reflections on an opaque oily surface.

Deflation

Artwork
Video Runtime : loop
Date
February, 2009
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Video

An attempt to capture the human breath.

Covering Books

Artwork
Video Runtime : loop
Date
February, 2009
This is my 
Video

What does it mean to anonymize and reclaim cultural objects, to remove function and render them only objects?

Tarring

Artwork
Video Runtime 13:53
Date
February, 2009
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Video

Trying to stay afloat.
There is a bittersweet feeling associated with the struggle to reach what may not be grasped. Perhaps this sentiment lies in the self-recognition of labor and toil without gratification or in trying to chase after an idea(l) that is by nature intangible and transient. If an act itself cannot be justified, and continue

Firewood

Artwork
Installation
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Date
February, 2009
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Work

A site of an aggression. I examine the relationship between divorced fragments– the quiet connection between two objects and the agitated space in between.
Made of scrap wood that has been reprocessed into uniform pieces only to be separated. The texture of raw wood from above presents a subtle contrast to the cross-sectional grain of freshly continue

Walled City

Artwork
Print on panel
Materials
Screenprint, oil, acrylic on wood
Dimensions
46
Date
December, 2008
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Process | Work

These panels represent an area of investigation that I want to apply for larger installations and works. I am interested in the fragmentary nature of the composition, where disparate formal elements combine to form an image, as if it were a collage. Similar to the composition that I created for Grand Illusions, the screenprinted image continue