I enjoy painting and video making – You can now see them intersect
2016 VIDEO PAINTINGS
Torn 9: Dimensional – 2010
Series Nine: Dimensional THREE D SERIES In these works I wanted to play with sculpting the surface. mixing paper and string and glass with my encyclopedia pages.
Torn 8: Mashers – 2009
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.
Torn 7: Page Numbers – 2008
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…
Torn 6: Clothes – 2007
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.
Torn 5: Doors – 2006
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…
Torn 4: Machines – 2005
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…
Love it or Leave it – 2004
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”
Torn 3: Windows – 2004
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…
Torn2: Men – 2003
Series Two: Little Men- THE SOLDIER SERIES The uniform and medical illustrations were always my favorite part of my old encyclopedias. I decided that I had to at least experiment with them. These paintings are about 4 x 6 inches.