October 2009 Archives

The print has been chosen for the limited edition to accompany next month's Picnic on Art Island event at my studio. The print image is from my 2007 video animation Treebeasties (1) and will be available in an edition of 50 through Cara and Cabezas Contemporary. Tickets and prints can be purchased online. The print is available with a ticket to the event for $175 (event only is $35).

Beyond Bounds: GLOW, this year's benefit exhibition and auction for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary of Art, was held at the museum last Saturday night. I wasn't able to attend but heard it was a great exhibition and event. I donated a print based on a video still from my recent Ectoplasmic Response video installation. I haven't heard yet whether or not it sold in the auction.

Cara Megan Lewis, of Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, came by the studio yesterday to taken some promo photos for next month's Picnic on Art Island. I'll be the next featured artist for this monthly series of dinner discussions held at artists studios around KC. In addition to a meal held for about 20 patrons, a special print edition is made for each event.  We're still working out the details of the image to be chosen, but it will most likely be a unique image based upon one of my recent video animations. The dinner details will be announced soon as well.

Visual Devotion, my collaborative performance project with KC-based band Thee Devotion (featuring local artists Davin Watne and Michael Schonhoff), is happening again. We're set for a one-night gig outdoors (weather-permitting) at The Mercy Seat in KC on November 6.

I recently completed a new video in collaboration with KC-based composer Christopher Biggs. The 7 min+ video was created as a component of a performance with recorded music and live saxophone. The piece debuted last week at the Channel Noise Concert at Georgia Southern University with Alex Sellers performing on saxophone. It will be performed by Alex once more at GSU on October 18, then by Elizabeth Blunt at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, KS on November 5.



The video with the recorded music, but minus the saxophone, can be viewed on Vimeo.