This was my first solo show at the Chicago Art Department, Im not sure that I would have made this many paintings had the opportunity to exhibit them was not available. Knowing that I have an audience in the members of the Chicago Art Department and the Pilsen arts community…
VIDEO CLOTHES Dressing Light – Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago For several years, I have collaborated on art and design projects with Belgium Fashion Designer and School of the Art Institute Fashion Instructor Anke Loh. She initially contacted me after seeing my video at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Flavors of Fashion…
Series six: Clothes SHIRTS SERIES I was working with a fashion designer around this time and it seemed completely logical for that to infect my work.
Series Five: Doors CLOSE-OPEN-CLOSE SERIES I think it was probably my second painting in college. It was a red door. I loved figuring out that I could paint light without using light colored paint, but by using dark. I revisit this composition regularly. I often use it as a warm…
This has been a poem, a song, a film and required reading for hundreds of High School juniors. I wrote the poem at Mount Mercy College in 1997. The song was first performed in 2003 and was later recorded for the Rook Rumors album. The film premiered at DePaul University…
The instructor at the Chicago Art Department hosted the first annual faculty show. I showed waxy paintings and performed a few songs.
Two of my students score a show at the Chicago Art Department Colin Luce and Linda Rinaldi – they are now married with two kids.
This gives you a pretty good idea what the “new” gallery offers in terms of community work space. The room is a giant concrete box with sky lights. is should be interesting.
For the third collaborative learning exhibition by the Chicago Art Department we chose the theme Street Studies. Again we collaborated with SXU. Cad students took east west streets and SXU students took north south streets. The final project took place at both SXU and CAD
Series Four: Zoom Machines – 2004 SUPER SIZE SERIES This series involved blowing up some of the images from the encyclopedia. My large drawing overlaid a surface composed with much smaller text. This created an effect of readability from very different viewing distances. Series Four.5: Irony Machines REMIX & TWIST…