Playing around with drawing and installation

Here are some shots from this past weekend when I hung a few drawings at SCAD for Martha Wittington's ArtMerge with MocaGA.  I had fun actually making installation for once, even if it was short-lived.  There were also some glow-sticks on the ground, but I cropped them out of the photos - I didn't like them in hindsight.  I used the color DVD from my old piece "Levitas", and projected it  from outside of the gallery onto the frosted glass, which left an amazing color haze over the drawing.  If the angles/perspective looks off, the installation is in a weird 'flat-iron' shaped corner of the space.

 

Detail of the drawing's reflection back over the projection - talk about Meta-Platonics

A couple more drawings

Another sampling.  I'm not sure if Bivouac is done, but I am definitely stumped by it for now. Also, Slope is tentatively titled, I'm also thinking Slope Floats, but whatever, probably not.

Bivouac sharpie on paper, 50"x38" (2011)

Slope ink and color pencil on paper 14x17 (2011)

What? I thought I quit making Art!

New drawings - YAY!

I have been thinking a good deal lately about our relationship to the screen, and how it has changed over time. I don't have the concept clear yet, but it as something to do with our obsession with the glowing screen, possibly as a surrogate for the comfort and wonderment caused by fire. Fire is a multifaceted entity that could be thought of as natural or artificial, depending on how it was ignited. In that sense, I see these drawings as an extension of my installation work that focuses on the implications of human-initiated (artificial) light sources.

currently untitled ink and color pencil on parchment, 14x17 (2011)

currently untitled ink and color pencil on paper, 18x24 (2011)

currently untitled ink and color pencil on paper, 18x24 (2011)

currently untitled ink and color pencil on paper, 18x24 (2011)

Work from the RISD Graduate Thesis Show 2009

A big thank you to all my friends and family who supported me over the past two years (and before).

Here is my latest sculptural offering. I'm not quite sure what is going on, but I know I'm experimenting with surface and movement in a way I'm not used to. Right now its stuck somewhere in a [(Pollack/Reinhardt/Rauschenburg) + (something else)/ water droplets] place, which isn't all bad, but not really my intention. I am still dealing with ideas of nothingness, phenomenology, and physics though - presence/absence, light/dark, levitation, gravity, electrons and photons, etc. Definitely gonna need more investigation.

Long time, No update

Its been quite some time since my last update. Im going to be in a group show in a few weeks in Newark, NJ at Gallery Aferro called Tabula Rasa. It opens March 21.

I will also be in a group show in New Haven, CT at a place called Creative Arts Workshop, opening Apri 10th. It is called Sky's the Limit: Built, Unbuilt, or Just Imagined. It is their annual juried show, and was juried by Janet Echelman, an amazing artist who a Fellow at Harvard.

In other news, I have been nominated for an International Sculpture Center's (Sculpture magazine) 2009 Outstanding Student Acheivement In Contemporary Sculpture Award. I am still far from receiving the actual award, but the nomination by my school's faculty is quite nice. Let's Hope for the best.

More new work

Here is a piece I just completed. Its called Asymptote, in reference to a limiting line that is never reached, but is infinitely approached. I feel like it is a return to a mode of working I was heading towards, but kind of veered away from when I came to grad school and attempted to try new things.
Essentially it is two curved walls that recede back towards a column of extremely bright lights. The pic is low res and taken with my phone, but i really think its a cool pic none the less - although in real life, the light is difficult to look at, the pic exaggerates the brightness of it. Better documentation will be on my website soon.