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 let me host the fundraiser again. – probably because I can execute the fast talk sound of an auctioneer when we sell the 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…
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…
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…
The instructor at the Chicago Art Department hosted the first annual faculty show. I showed waxy paintings and performed a few songs.
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…
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…