View of the studio - May 2022
View of the studio - June 2022
from "Edge Fidelity" series. 16"x20", UV printed aluminum with blade and cast concrete on wood backing, finish corner aluminum frame.
The "Edge Fidelity" series is a blend of photographic and sculptural material, interpreting collisions of history and architecture in the public sphere. This image is of New York City, the artist's hometown.
from "Function of Memory" series. 16"x20", UV printed aluminum, stone, steel rod, in finish corner aluminum frame
In these works, found stones and rocks hover above photographs printed directly on aluminum, considering the image as a fragment and the photographic exchange as both visual and memorialized.
"The Innocence (which constitutes the crime)" (working title) 30"x36", aluminum panel, thin bricks, UV printed aluminum in finished corner aluminum frame.
"Distinct Boundaries (with love as a gesture)" (working title) 30"x36", aluminum panel, concrete, UV printed aluminum in finished corner aluminum frame.
"Imagist Poem" 40"x77", UV printed aluminum, architectural panel, concrete, finished corner aluminum frame.
Update of an earlier work, using collaged text from record covers to spell out a poem by Ezra Pound, "In the Station of the Metro". Written in a haiku style, the entire poem reads: "The apparition of these face in the crowd, petals on a wet black bough"
In Progress - text/material piece, 40"x74", images on aluminum with thin bricks with fragment of an Ocean Vuong poem. "I know the room you've been crying in is called America"
The bricks are patterned to suggest both a road and series of colliding buildings.
In Progress - text material piece, 72"x96", photographs and curtain
(*final version will likely be a single line of images with curtain behind. this two line version was created due to space constraints)
This work collect the final section of James Joyce's "Ulysses" shown on record covers with William Eggleston photographs.
"And his heart was going like mad Yes I said Yes I will Yes"
This work blends the intimacies of a domestic interior, historical moments, and interpretative text. A question it seems to ask: "How does text enter the body?"
not yet titled, laser etched sheetrock 8"x10"
From a series depicting a brutalist Paul Rudolph building in Boston, slated for demolition
not yet titled, laser etched sheetrock 8"x10"
From a series depicting a brutalist Paul Rudolph building in Boston, slated for demolition
not yet titled, laser etched sheetrock 8"x10"
From a series depicting a brutalist Paul Rudolph building in Boston, slated for demolition
"Origin of Observable Need (destroyed print)" 30"x40" Iris prints and UV printed aluminum
This piece is commissioned by Google.
Also considering technology and desire, this work has the J Lo dress in the background, while the foreground is covered with Iris prints, one of the earliest digital print technologies, where the pigment was injected into the paper. With the addition of water, the image degrades into abstraction.
"Origin of Observable Need (3D)" 30"x40", 3D lenticular print
This piece is commissioned by Google.
The first Google image was of the iconic J Lo Versace green dress from 2000. These paired works express the interesting tension between "desire" and "device", how technology may fit a personal need. This work is a 3D lenticular image where the subject seems to move with the viewer's movements.
clip of 3D effect -
"Origin of Observable Need (3D)" 30"x40", 3D lenticular print
Not yet titled (Triptych with Kanye) each panel 30"x40" UV printed aluminum
This piece is current reserved.
A few months ago, Kanye deleted his Instagram except for this one image. When paired with images of young men around a large bonfire, it seems to make a continuous physical and psychic landscape - suggesting sites of violence, confusion, and the sublime.
"Kanye in Oakland" UV printed aluminum, architectural panel
This piece is currently reserved.
A took a photo from the audience at a Kanye concert in 2016. It's a single image, with Kanye on a floating stage above a crowd and a Jumbotron tv overhead. Kanye simultaneously looks like an intense object of attention, as well as completely isolated. This image has haunted me for years, but I wanted to add some architecture around it, so a panel was added which suggests physical additions to the original image.
early version - "Stellar Parallax (Rhombus)" 2022, mixed media installation, 12'x7', architectural panels, UV print on aluminum, vinyl print
This piece is commissioned by Google.
A large scale installation in the rhombus shape of the Google building, this work constantly shifts in perspective and scale, depending on the apparent position of the viewer. It's name refers to the recognition of seeing a star in the sky and having both the subject and viewer in constant motion. The background here is a blown up image of Gordon Matta-Clark's "Bronx Floor", the image in the middle is from a Youtube "slow time" 10 hr live video of a train going to the Arctic Circle, and the outer rings suggest orbits, a Vesica Pisces, and the designs of Carlo Scarpa.
later version - "Stellar Parallax (Rhombus)" 2022, mixed media installation, 12'x7', architectural panels, UV print on aluminum, vinyl print