We took the best of my two creative worlds, Chicago Art Department and Saint Xavier University Department of Art & Design, and smashed them together. The topic was Chicago Streets – Every Artist chose a different street. Documentary made by a student in the class. Classroom Footage Concert Footage WESTERN…
This was the first Chicago Art Department Exhibit The exhibit followed 15 weeks of collaborative learning and discussions. A merger of the three instructors favorite students and favorite artists from the community. All of the artworks were designed to communicate the theme “Love it or Leave it”
Series Three: The Abstracts THE WINDOW SERIES These were the first large paintings from the Torn from Britannica Series. I started each painting by choosing a frame and working backwards to the painting. My primary agenda with this series was to explore positive and negative space. I wanted it to…
LOVER LEAVER Location: Transamoeba – South Loop – Chicago Year: 2003 All of the members of the rock band Hive of Fives, including myself, took part in the Chicago Art Department (see below). The topic chosen for the first CAD exhibit was “Love It or Leave It’. For the CAD…
In the spring of 2004, Laura Chiarmonte and Marvin Marzocco of the modern dance company Creative Arts Melting Pot, contacted Deb Vogt and I, to see if we were interested in contributing a multimedia performance for their upcoming show about fears. IMAGERY After a brief conversation about our fears and…
History Whistle is the first video I created using the video printmaking technique wherin a performer slides class plates containing parts of the whole image in front of a video camera. The viewer watches the image being created and disected as the camera jumps focus from layer to layer. History…
Right Right Rook So my buddy ralph did it again . He chopped up The Right Stuff (a 1980’s heroic space-race movie.) I have always been a space geek and I felt obligated to give his clips a try.I added a bit of my archive – video game fighter jets…
I have had no better collaborative art experience than the Workshift performance. Jane Gilmore and BJ Krivanek, both university professors, pulled together their favorite alums and assembled an intermedia cast of choreographers, storytellers, composers, conceptualists, documentarians and experimental media artists. The project was to tell the stories of woman working…
Peoples Republic of Delicious Food @ The Museum of Contemporary Art PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF DELICIOUS FOOD (PRDF) was an artist collective that operated through a list serve, when an event was proposed, e-mails and phone calls went out. In some cases people showed up the night of and the event took…
This is a series of 4 video stories that I created while studying at the University of Iowa in the Intermedia Department. The department had a long tradition of video art and a new set of digital tools. This was one of my first experiments in mildly abstract digital video…