Cat Hair Everywhere

A show for no eyes

2011-05-01T10:07:00.000-07:00

Studio shots via phone

2011-03-26T18:21:00.000-07:00

This will have a sound piece hidden inside it playing.

Making 71" x 71" paintings forever. Well, others too.

Oh yeah

2011-03-26T18:14:00.000-07:00

Working on a new off shoot website. The double entendre of nothing is enough. It's pretty perfect.

nothingisenough.com

The website won't change for a long time, that's the point. It was more about the act of claiming space.
I find myself going to the site and just staring at it, watching the letters float.

Some 3D things.

2011-03-26T17:35:00.000-07:00

Housing for Drone Lab made from MDF. 3 pieces cut out on the CNC then assembled.

ABS plastic, made with a rapid prototyper. Excavated landscape with monolith.

This is small, roughly 3.5" x 2" x 1"

Low relief pyramid shape. Cut out of pink foam using the CNC, then primed and sanded.

Fiat inside MCAD

2011-03-26T17:31:00.000-07:00

Top left is my design concept.

Return to geometry

2011-03-06T20:24:00.000-08:00

Gonna keep heading in this direction. It feels correct. They are not trying to function as anything but a painting. I am not trying to convince the viewer of anything. I am providing an exit. In reference to my own body in space, these works are 71" x 71", which is my height and arm span.

71" x 71" Oil on canvas.

I am in the process of making 3 more of these works. As well as some that are 71" x 18.5", which is my height and shoulder width.

New paintings

2011-03-06T20:19:00.000-08:00

A few new ones.

54" x 46.5" Oil on wood panel.

44" x 38" Oil on canvas.

48" x 48" Oil on canvas.

New

2011-02-22T21:53:00.001-08:00

DENNIS

2011-02-22T19:41:00.001-08:00

This was one of the various cat videos I have been installing at MCAD in the halls.

More More More

2011-02-21T23:03:00.000-08:00

This was his idea.

New experiments

2011-01-07T17:22:00.000-08:00

Been playing with lots of audio things lately, that started with a guitar and about 7 distortion pedals, that then led to a LFO oscillator, then a small sequencer, a few old casio keybords that are being circuit bent, and now some datamoshing/bending. Databending is using digital files to create a new, unexpected output. Basically you can use certain programs, like Audacity, to import any kind of data, turning it into a waveform. With video, there are two kinds of frames and by removing certain ones it allows the information and code that creates an image to crash together.

Two videos of databending experiments. Some with found video, other video taken with an iPhone.

Here is my resume. I saved my resume as a raw text document, and then imported the data into Audacity, generating a wave form. The clip was quite short, so it has been slowed down about 300%, leaving me with a 14 second sound piece.

Sound Only:

Original Video - More videos at TinyPic

More to come.

Counting

2010-12-17T11:59:00.000-08:00

Blizzard today

2010-12-11T14:49:00.000-08:00

Here is some monotypes I made for a project last week. 7" x 7" acrylic on paper. I used small wood blocks to push paint around on a piece of plexiglass, and then pressed the paper on top to make my print. I continued to do that until I thought each was finished. Typically 1-3 layers.

Lots of installations

2010-12-02T16:34:00.000-08:00

Most recent installation. I've been pretty interested in tape lately. Yep, tape. I had also been to Minnehaha Falls lately too, investigating some stuff for another project, and was really intrigued by a broken walkway near the river. There is walking paths all around the falls, that lead down to the river, and it's an endless battle of the city versus nature, trying to keep order and maintain these paths. It's amusing how we build things knowing they will be destroyed season after season. I started to think about water flooding land, and slowly taking away, and rearranging already existing forms. I was mainly concerned with small samples, the remains we barely see. With tape, I was able to take small samples in various ways, and re-purpose them.

The center piece was a combination of 2D work and a sound piece. I chose 5 songs, and manipulated them in various ways on the computer. In the end, looking at the waveform, I was left with a very thin waveform of remaining sound. I did various things to all 5 songs, and then created an 11 minute 11 second composition out of them. The 2D work on paper is directly related to the sound piece. Using the sound files positions on the soundboard within the editing program, this created my structure. I printed out the album covers of the 5 chosen artists, and then applied clear tape over them. Pulling the tape off, I ripped off small fragments of the image, and then took that piece and placing it on the paper.

Here is the audio: No visual, just sound.

Original Video - More videos at TinyPic

The piece on the left was in regards to my encounter with the damaged walkway. There is a series of 6 images, 3 sets of pairs. In the first images, something is removed, the following image is the use of what was removed from the first.

A small jar sits below these images, with a small amount of remains. These small pieces are what was left on my boots after walking around the falls, encountering the walkway, and eventually making it back to my studio. My body, and feet, acting as tape, carried objects from one place to another, similar to the water changing the land as well.

Two pieces on the right wall. The first, on the left, was based around the experience of a moment, as much as it was about a result. Various strips of tape were applied to the surface of a sheet of paper during the making of this work, and when the work was installed, I pulled the strips down to the bottom, allowing them to hang free. I was able to see the removal of paper fibers on the surface of the paper, as well as the removed fibers stuck to the underside of the tape. The tape, once flat, now has taken new form as well, curling, or laying straight with slow waves. With this we can see the before and after still paired together.

The piece next to this was largely experimental. Using imagery of the broken walkway, partially covered with water, I covered the images in tape, pulled it off, and re-used what I had taken to create the work. A photograph was then taken of the damaged original, edited, and then re-printed.

More images from the installation a few posts below.

2010-12-02T16:08:00.000-08:00

Framed them all in maple, floated the pictures. Watercolor and collage. Was in a rush to shoot these images, they went into the art sale right after, and now most of them are gone.

Not sure where they came from

2010-11-14T22:49:00.000-08:00

Somehow, running on no sleep, I came home from working all day and turned these 3 out. 18" x 24" collage on wood panels.

New stuff

2010-11-12T00:54:00.000-08:00

New works on paper. 22" x 30" watercolor and collage. Starting to use text in some work. Also very interested in the performance involved with using watercolor. These pieces often reference my mental health and desire for both isolation and integration into the world. I will have detailed shots in a couple days, this is just the installation view.

All framed up and ready to hit the MCAD art sale next week.

18" around the perimeter of the space, ashes were sprinkled on the ground. This creates a distance for the viewer when looking at the pieces. If they want to read the text, they have to step into the ashes and leave their impression. The ashes are in reference to a story, about a boy who would do anything to impress a girl. She said, "Make it snow." So he burns the world down, and blankets the earth in ash. In turn he loses everything and is left with only memories floating around in the desolate abyss. While moving around in the space, the only thing you hear is the crunch of ash beneath your feet.

Just made these tonite

2010-10-08T00:07:00.000-07:00

Two little things. 11" x 14" collage on wood panel. They are for another group exhibition thing I am doing. I have very little info on that right now though.

New Installation. "Order"

2010-10-07T22:07:00.000-07:00

This was a installation done while thinking of the word "order." I was using the work of artist Glenn Ligon as inspiration. He creates large bodies of repeated phrases, eventually leading them into a giant unreadable sea. I also enjoy the work he does with neon lighting. (Click to see)(Click to see) I like the repetition that leads to disorder. (Read about Glenn Ligon)

For my piece, I focused on two main shapes, the circle and square. A circle is an impossible object, they do not exist. But the angles of a square are tangible, and we can understand a square. Within all my compositions are circles being trapped by a square. The impossible being imposed on by a structure attempting to be real, to have some significance.

These thoughts emerged during an experience I had in my living space, where I became completely overwhelmed with the thought of clutter and useless items that we insist on having in our lives, and how we drag them with us for long periods of time. I turned on my audio recorder and began to purge items throughout my living space. It was pretty intense, I probably tossed about 8 garbage bags worth of things. Useless clutter. Not even caring to try and repurpose it, donate it, it was driving me insane. Get out of my life. Thanks.

After that I started to think about how strange that aspect of life is. All these things. Desperately trying to keep them in order. Things to dust. Things to clean. Boxes. Stuff I don't even know I have. Doing nothing with itself, mocking me. Why do we care about these things so much? Even now, with art as I attempt to express my disgust with such a routine, I am still creating more items for myself, that I now have to take care of.

This installation was a creation of objects, and my attempt to keep order, within a space that truly will never be mine. In a larger view, now the earth has become the circle I am attempting to have order in, I am placing objects on it, trying to claim it as mine.

From a distance the reflection of the light on the floor creates a hidden square.

36" x 36" Acrylic on wood panel. Warm white was used for the falling circle, and cold white for the background. This made the falling circle barely noticeable, as we don't immediately see the control objects put over us.

The crescent shape was made by repeatedly painting the word "order." After each full word, it would be smeared and made unreadable.

Falling.

A 36" fluorescent light sits in between two 11"x11"x11" cubes. The light is used from more inspiration of Glenn Ligon's work. I wanted to use light in some way. In this case, the light is used for an absurb quality. It serves no function really, beyond creating the illusion of a square. Other than that, it is just another object. It's brightness makes an added level of annoyance and presence.

I created a sound collage with audio I captured during my purging of items rampage. I edited the audio into a frantic mix of noise, it contines to layer onto itself, eventually playing over itself 4x, and becoming a total mess. This audio was a reference again to Ligon's distorted bottoms on his typography pieces. The headphone cord only comes out of the box for 5 feet. The item controls how far you can move. A small air vent cover was mounted on the wall, referencing my experience I had within my own living space.

Here is the audio that plays in the headphones. Don't worry that you don't see a picture, this is just so you can hear.

Original Video - More videos at TinyPic

20 feet to the left of the main body, a 8x loupe rests on a shelf.

Looking into the loupe you can see a tiny square. This time the circle dominates the square, it is the only occurance in the installation. Yet at the same time, the viewer must be on their hands and knees to look, the object is still controlling them.

Full shot again.

Bad picture. Blame the iPhone, not my lack of documentation before it's in a show.

2010-10-07T21:06:00.001-07:00

Helvetica alphabet. In an upcoming MCAD exhibition at Barnes & Thornburg law office downtown Minneapolis.

Helvetica Collage

2010-09-26T13:17:00.000-07:00

18" x 24" collage on wood panel.

Holden Caulfield

2010-09-21T17:37:00.000-07:00

New piece. Acrylic and collage on wood panel 41.25" x 41.25" accompanied by pegboard cube 20" x 20" x 20". One corner of the cube was cut off and applied to the painting surface to reflect Holden's removal from his own narrative.

next.

Another installation. This one for Operative Drawing.

2010-09-20T01:45:00.000-07:00

Tape, steel ribbon, fishing line, paper, straws.

sleep? never.

Terrible at blogging. Great at keeping busy.

2010-09-20T01:32:00.000-07:00

Project One for Advanced Installation & Performance. 46.6 miles on a bicycle with a custom contraption created 55 total 14.75" x 22.25" drawings. 88 line drawings made into a book. 4 videos split between two screens. 27 minute sound collage of recordings made while biking/drawing.

whew.

Experiments.

2010-07-18T23:15:00.001-07:00

Acherontia Lachesis Meets the Flower of Life

2010-07-03T00:50:00.000-07:00

15" x 23" Collage on wood panel.

Scattered like birds

2010-07-02T02:43:00.000-07:00

Scattered Like Birds

15" x 23" Collage on wood panel.

Still might add more to this one.

2010-07-01T14:41:00.001-07:00

18"x18" Collage on wood panel.

New Work. Finally a blog post.

2010-07-01T14:37:00.000-07:00

18"x18" Collage on wood panel.

16"x20" Collage on wood panel.

20"x30" Collage on wood panel.

24"x24" Collage on wood panel.

16"x20" Collage on wood panel.

Hi, I'm in NYC

2010-05-13T19:44:00.001-07:00

In NYC for a week. Mega picture post will happen next week. Until then, bye! =D

Last piece for the spring, Hello summer. Photos courtesy of Kacie Thompson.

2010-05-11T19:38:00.000-07:00

Hi, it's 4:28 a.m. at MCAD currently

2010-05-07T02:36:00.000-07:00

Some more Merit 2010 pics

2010-04-13T02:12:00.000-07:00

Photos courtesy of Hannah Delon

Merit Scholarship Competition

2010-04-12T01:35:00.000-07:00

Beep Beep

2010-04-09T01:13:00.000-07:00

Lost in space

2010-04-09T01:07:00.000-07:00

Pushing around Life Support 02 in the halls at 4 a.m.

2010-04-08T15:53:00.000-07:00

Sleepless nights. Always.

2010-04-08T15:50:00.000-07:00

Video of Life Support Machine 01 turned on.

2010-03-25T23:59:00.001-07:00

Life Support Machine 01

2010-03-25T23:43:00.000-07:00

I'm exploring my interests three dimensionally now. The output has taken the form of my own personal life support machines. My work is my chance to escape this place, and this escape provides the means for me to survive another day.

Suddenly things got quiet

2010-03-04T01:28:00.000-08:00

38x50" Charcoal, watercolor, acrylic, graphite and spray paint.

38"x50" Collage, graphite, marker

detail.

22"x30" Charcoal and graphite

Still here. Making my own world.

2010-03-03T14:13:00.000-08:00

Somewhere else

2010-03-02T00:36:00.001-08:00

Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic, graphite.

Living in the doldrums

2010-02-28T23:59:00.001-08:00

New drawings. Charcoal. 25" x 35" roughly.

Life is a blur.

2010-02-23T14:53:00.001-08:00

Gallery 148 @ MCAD [ Just The 11 Of Us ]

2010-02-20T20:37:00.000-08:00

Took that last Wednesday night after I got done. I'll have better pics next week when I actually document it.

SOOOOOOOOOOO Busy!! A real update will come...someday.

2010-02-16T00:58:00.000-08:00

Foot in the Door 4

2010-02-04T02:02:00.000-08:00

Upcoming show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Foot in the Door 4. Here's a link with all the info.

12" x 12" Collage and acrylic on birch panel.

Cats are just little people.

2010-01-22T00:14:00.000-08:00

18" x 24" collage and acrylic on wood panel. This collage is using shapes that mimic the brush stroke(s) that would normally be in their place. The only real paint is made of 2 orange strokes coming together near the center.

MCAD

2010-01-19T12:47:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to the current furniture show at MCAD right now that I did some painting for in the gallery. There is a photo of it in the link.

Whoa, haven't done that for a bit

2010-01-14T22:47:00.001-08:00

There is an upcoming show of recent alumi from MCAD who majored in furniture design. The show is nick named "Kids in the Hall" for one section of it. They wanted some graffiti on the wall, so through the grapevine it ended up being me. Thanks for the Ironlak paint MCAD, it was fun.

A Blue Dimension

2010-01-11T00:06:00.000-08:00

Had to crop this kinda weird, it's an unmounted wood panel at the moment. Roughly 19" x 23". Acrylic.

Falling

2010-01-10T23:03:00.000-08:00

These 3 are based on a painting a did a few months ago. It was mainly a field of gray with a few falling shapes. This time I wanted to explore that while sticking with my current aesthetic. They are each 8x8", acrylic on canvas.

Ode to Robert Rauschenberg 01

2010-01-10T20:46:00.000-08:00

Starting a new series of work inspired by the work of Robert Rauschenberg. Not sure if this one is done yet. 30" x 40" acrylic on canvas.

Lotta blue stuff lately

2010-01-07T23:26:00.000-08:00

24x36" Acrylic on canvas.

Blue and Grey

2010-01-05T01:25:00.000-08:00

New little mini series. 16x16" acrylic on wood panel.

2010-01-03T22:15:00.000-08:00

Upcoming

2009-11-19T01:17:00.001-08:00

Doing some studies for my upcoming final paintings. I built some more stretchers yesterday. So far I will be working with the following sizes: First a 39" x 39" square. Next, 2 canvases a 33" x 38 " paired with a 54" x 38" bringing it to a total size of 87" x 38". Should be fun. I'm preparing for this by doing some mixed media studies. Collage and acrylic on Duralar. The studies are roughly 10"x18" ish.

Listen

2009-11-08T19:22:00.001-08:00

The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds may be one of the greatest things ever.

Too much to do.

2009-11-02T08:55:00.001-08:00

It's snowing

2009-10-12T00:20:00.001-07:00

Mom, you'll be glad to know my heat works so well that I'm actually hot right now.

2 hours of sleep

2009-10-07T08:10:00.001-07:00

Wait, what?

2009-10-01T23:26:00.000-07:00

You know you operate on a weird schedule when you look at the clock, it says 1:26 a.m., and you say "Whew, it's still early."

hmmmm.

Digestion

2009-09-27T19:43:00.001-07:00

38" x 50"
Ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper.

Quarrel with others; rhetoric. Quarrel with ourselves; poetry.

2009-09-09T11:15:00.001-07:00

Oh word?

2009-09-02T23:52:00.000-07:00

Another night getting home at 2 a.m.

Just what I needed. (no sarcasm)

Pictures soon.

I don't wear a watch

2009-08-30T00:12:00.000-07:00

2:12 a.m. and I just got home from MCAD.

That's my kinda Saturday night.

Bye

The long nights are starting

2009-08-26T20:59:00.001-07:00

See what I did there?

2009-08-25T20:21:00.001-07:00

Probably just be updating on the weekend from now on.

Oh yeah, ummmmm.

2009-08-21T19:51:00.001-07:00

Cool, hey waking up, what's that like?

2009-08-21T19:23:00.000-07:00

Teaching cats to use cameras

2009-08-18T08:32:00.001-07:00

One week to go

2009-08-17T14:24:00.001-07:00

Remix, facelift, undo, redo, you know?

2009-08-16T18:47:00.001-07:00

Gotta keep it fresh.

wokeupdreaming.com

word.

Everything goes wrong.

2009-08-11T14:28:00.001-07:00