Honorable Mention at the Taoyuan International Art Award

My project Disposable Monument II (After the Boys Who Wore Gray) received one of four Honorable Mentions at the Taoyuan International Art Award in March 2021. My work was selected as one of seventeen finalists from over 600 applications, and received one of three Honorable Mention awards among the finalists.

Title Magazine essay on Disposable Monuments

Christa DiMarco wrote a wonderful and thoughtful essay for Title Magazine on Disposable Monuments, the project I created at RAIR this March and April. See the full essay here. 

20/20 Exhibition at Locust Projects, Miami

This September I'll be participating in a group exhibition to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Locust Projects in Miami. I'm creating a new kinetic work for this exhibition, based on a folding chair used in an attempt to assassinate Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Miami in 1933. Full info here.

Franconia project in the Minneapolis Star Tribune

The project I just completed at Franconia Sculpture Park got a nice mention in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. No pix of the work in the online version, but a good discussion of the process of creating A Souvenir of the Minnesota State Fair, 1910 (Butter Roosevelt). Also some interviews with the other wonderful artists I worked alongside at Franconia! 

Where the Artists Are reviewed in the Inquirer

A nice review of Where the Artists Are, a group show I'm in at Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery, published January 24th. Read the review here. 

RAIR Residency 2018

I'm excited to announce that I'll be participating in Philly's own RAIR Residency this March and April. This is a unique residency that gives artist access to all of the materials moving through the waste stream at a large dump/recycling facility in Northeast Philadelphia. More at rairphilly.org

Nice shout-out from the Inquirer for WOOD at Practice Gallery

Edith Newhall from the Philadelphia Inquirer took a liking to a small piece I made for WOOD, a fundraiser show at Practice Gallery in the newly re-opened 319 Building. Read below, along with a nice roundup of the December/January shows at 319. 

Vox Populi and its building-mates are back to business as usual

Smoke and Mirrors at the Torrance Art Museum

This January, I will be participating in Smoke and Mirrors at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, California. I will be presenting a major new installation titled A Film for the Theatre/A Theatre for the Film. The piece draws from the ornate Los Angeles Theatre building in downtown LA, and a sculptural prop from City Lights, a Charlie Chaplin film which premiered at the theatre. From the museum's website: 

January 20th- March 10th, 2018

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 20th, 6-9pm

The artists in SMOKE AND MIRRORS investigate the nature of reality; how objects, memories, ideas come into being, how they persist and how they cease to exist. The works want to make ghosts appear in the flesh and, at the same time reveal their illusionary nature. These artists are magicians
of their trade, oblique translators of both physical and virtual environments, recreating stages and props, histories and identities. By exploring the space between known and unverifiable realities, they shed light on the infinite vagueness of the anthropocentric universe.

The exhibition encompasses video, sculpture, installation and performance and presents artists from Argentina, Finland, France, Italy, Germany and the United States.

Rear view of work for Smoke and Mirrors, under construction at Cal State University, Northridge. 

Where the Artists Are at the Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University

This January, I will be participating in Where the Artists Are, a three-person faculty exhibition at Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery, with Anda Dubinskis and Mark Stockton. I'm excited to present a survey of works from 2011 to the present, along with a series of sketch and prototype objects from my studio practice. 

From the gallery's website:

Exhibition Dates:
January 16 – March 18
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 18 5-7pm

By examining several years of each artists’ work the show will explore the intellectual and technical characteristics that distinguish their daily working routines; what draws them into in their studios, excites them, and keeps them there. Studio work is how artists spend their days. This show looks at three artists and how their experiments, frustrations, discoveries and digressions eventually grow into cohesive bodies of work. 

Above: Centennial (American Still Life), one of the works in the exhibition.