200 LINCOLNS Art celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s 200th Birthday February 13th – February 27th 200 LINCOLNS In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th Birthday this February, the Chicago Art Department will be opening a new group exhibition appropriately titled, “200 Lincolns” which will feature 200 portraits of Honest Abe in a variety…
These were are the product of a very strange set of collaborations between me and two performance artists. One was a photographer who feature sarcastic-erotic-precarious self portraits. The other was a set and costume designer that built a crazy surrealistic funkshop in our gallery for a week called Salvador’s Wardrobe.
Series Eight: Mashers SHMASH SERIES In these works I wanted to exploit the cognitive properties of merger by association. I smashed various ideas into small compositions to force associations between the content.
They were also looking to fill a 1-4am slot with something fun, conceptually interesting, and above all, interactive. The location was to be the parking ramp under Millennium Park. I quickly suggested the Round Robin art warm-up that we have done for the first day of many CAD classes, (5-10…
They let me host the fundraiser again. – probably because I can execute the fast talk sound of an auctioneer when we sell the art.
I love this photo of this art
Series Seven: Page Numbers DIGIT ZOOM SERIES In a respnose to a commission proposal, I took one of my Little Squares (the earliest pieces in the Torn Series) and magnified it from 4 inches to 4 feet. The results were very interesting and I did hundreds of variations. Here are…
So these songs were created in the upstairs studio at the Chicago Art Department Gallery. This should be a little louder than Relents and more human then Relic. These are all solo tracks – I wrote the song, played the guitar sang the lyrics, chose the drum and uploaded it…
Heroes: a CAD class exhibition Friday December 14, 2007 Chicago Art Department This would be the last of our full length concept driven classes at CAD for several years.
in these pieces I chopped up some old suitcases to make video bags. Theses video bags would go on to become my pre-skype video conference boxes for an exhibit called language of travel.