November 2009 Archives

I recently finished a new print to benefit KVC Behavioral HeathCare. The print was sold in KVC's annual Holiday Tree Gala at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art last Saturday night. I originally intended this to be a one-off print, but I may now make a small edition of it.

Picnic on Art Island, the monthly event organized by Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, was held at my studio last night. We a nice crowd, a fun discussion led by Cara Megan Lewis, and a great meal by Kristen Montgomery.

My newest piece, an audio wall scuplture titled Somnambulance (1), debuted this past Friday at the Review Studios annual residents' exhibition in the studio gallery. It changed quite a bit from the first version that was being installed (posted here earlier in the week). The piece consists of 6 speakers mounted on the walls in a corner of the gallery with the speaker wires creating a sort of drawing as they are pulled over the top edge of the walls. A subwoofer is hidden behind the walls. The audio is a Dolby 5.1 track which allows the sounds to move throughout the speaker configuration. The audio is composed of 30 layers of sound appropriated from obscure mid-century soundtracks and spoken word.

The performance of Promethea last week at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival was just reviewed by Lee Hartman for kcmetropolis.org.

Promethea, my collaboration with composer Christopher Biggs, was performed last Thursday night at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, KS. Elizabeth Bunt was in from Arizona to perform the saxophone part. Video clips of the performance, as well as the actual video, can be viewed on Vimeo.

We decided to change the image for the print edition that will be accompanying the upcoming Picnic on Art Island event. The edition will now feature an image from my 2009 video animation Lawn Ornaments. We decided to make the change because the original image had been exhibited as a print once before at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas and we thought having a previously unseen print would be better.