More time in the studio = another finished painting. Now I need to figure out how to wrangle these three (and the rest of my schtufz) into the van for the drive to Philly. I head out Sunday and hope to stop in Pittsburgh to see some museums en route.
I have been painting a lot lately and it feels great. I used to be a painter exclusively and have come around to working in a variety of approaches and media depending upon what I want the outcome to be. But painting my first love and when I engage in it, it just feels right [...]
So this post is less about art, and more about running. Running was very important to me throughout grad school. For me it is an experience that is wrapped up in the particulars of place and music; simultaneously it evokes solitude and engagement with the world around me. DeKalb, Illinois, where I went to grad [...]
I am reconfiguring the way that I think about this blog in relation to my website. This seems like a great forum for all of the stuff I had on (and would be updating to) the pictures page on my site. There is no longer a link to that page, though you can still access [...]
It’s been a busy couple of art months recently. The latest is an installation called Ghost Town for the Annual Art Faculty Exhibition in the University Gallery at EMU. What you don’t see is one of the best aspects of the piece: there’s a song. Mark wrote the most amazing song recently that I dubbed [...]
One show just came down at the Gallery Project in Ann Arbor and one show just went up at Paint Creek Center for the Arts in Rochester (MI). I am honored to have been/be a part of both of them. Here are some photos of my work from Presence/Absence at PCCA (including some new work [...]
I moved around a lot as a kid and lived as far south as Georgia, where I was born, and as far north as Buffalo, NY, where we moved when I was six or seven. After five moves, my family settled for the rest of my growing-up years in Rockford in northern Illinois. As a [...]
I have a show coming up at Gallery Project in Ann Arbor curated by three other artists, one of whom is my good friend and colleague at EMU, Jennifer Locke. The show is called The Spring 2010 Collection (aka Fashion Show), and thus all of the work is about issues surrounding fashion, from a more [...]
I have been particularly struck by the work of two artists of late. Mark Dion and Mike McFalls. Last night I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by artist Mark Dion at Cranbrook. First of all, his talk was riveting. He speaks in such a narrative, engaging manner, that when he was finished, I [...]
Some big things are happening right now: a switch from a 2004 crusty cell phone to an iphone (that’s right), and a big island painting. Here are some photos by the iphone and of the painting (yes, by the phone). Go!
