March 2009 Archives

I'm working on some tests for a new portrait (or series of portraits) for the upcoming exhibit at Light Work. This is a frame from a self-portrait animation but I'm looking into other models for the work. It will most likely be produced to be a video and still prints.

And yes...the colors in the final will most likely be hyper/psychedelic.

My intern, Claire, and I made a new chromakey wall in the studio last Friday. Eventually I'm hoping to build a full cyc set in the back part of the space, but this wall will do fine for a couple of the current pieces in the works.

We used a matte paint from Home Depot instead of the true chroma green and it's working great (at half the cost). I'm lighting it with fluorescents which are also working great. The glares are mainly due to the fact that the paint is still wet in the photo.

Epic Escapism (2), part of an older video installation of mine, is included in Happy Tree Friends (or Standing: Tree as Agent, Index, Object of Desire), a group exhibition curated by Kate Hackman. The exhibition opened to a packed crowd last night at the Urban Culture Project's la Esquina space in KC's Westside neighborhood. The exhibition runs until April 18, 2009.

The original installation can be viewed in my portfolio.

My new video, Always Becoming Something (3), opened this week at the Salina Art Center. It was commissioned by the SAC and is comprised of video portraits of 27 residents of Salina, KS. The exhibition runs until May 7, 2009.

The video is the third in an on-going series of videos depicting people in various art communities. The first two were created with art students at Syracuse University while I was in residency at Light Work.