All photos by Robert Chase Heishman ARTIST INTERVIEW NATHAN PECK: DREAM MACHINE As a teacher and a practicing artist, I think a lot about the feedback loop between teaching and creating. I asked Nathan Peck how teaching fits into his art practice. ___________________ I’ve taught full time at SXU…
Relics from “The Dream Machine” Sabbatical work by Nathan Peck After nearly twenty years at Saint Xavier University, I finally took a semester off for professional development and creative production. My sabbatical was scheduled for last spring. I guess it was lucky that everything was closed. I am easily distracted…
The Great American Dream Machine will continue to pump gallons of greasy paintings, sculptures, videos and songs into your eyes and ears until you pull yourself up and earn that two-story self-fulfilling prophecy at the corner of Main Street and our collective subconscious. Component 1 Component 2
Before we had The Great American Dream Machine we had: Great American Novels, Great American Dreams, Great American Machines, The American Spirit, The Holy Spirit and The Spirit of St. Louis American factories and cities and citizens. Great Men, Great Women, and the Great American Songbook, Ben Franklin, Walt Witman, and Dorothea…
I bought a truck. This allows me to collect furniture. I live in a neighborhood built in the 1950’s They trow away really nice furniture. Voila – A guitar is born. note – This project is still under construction the screen in front of the speaker is still being hotly…
This instrument was created through the processes of experimentation and failure. I was attempting to create a sample wooden sphere for my 3D students to study. A miscalculation left me with a half constructed 3/4 sphere. Decorative holes designed into the perimeter happened to perfectly fit a section of broomstick…
I sketched this guitar in the car while my wife was driving us back to Chicago from Iowa. I wanted to essentially Decorate and electrify a tin can guitar that I had built on a 2×2 plank in my garage. Most of the laser work that I did was purely…
This video was shot and edited by Abel Juarez and Heather Kaminsky, students at SXU. This event was October 7, 2017. The event featured students from many of my classes.
Shovels and paintings and ipads
Summer laser sculpture This one plays the video Who Cares.