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Exhibition Update, 08.19.2009 08:31 pm
I wanted to let you know you can see my work right now at Bottega in Wilmington through September 6th. I am apart of the Miniature Masterpieces exhibition there.
I am also apart of the N.E.W. show in Raleigh. The work will be on display from September 4-24.
Finally, I have a piece in the Arts in Academia exhibition in Mobile, Alabama at Space 301. The exhibition begins September 11 and ends October 24.
Please come check the work out if you can. Thanks!
Art of the everyday, 04.16.2009 09:54 am
The Greenwich gallery in Cincinnati (2442 Gilbert Ave) is opening a new show on April 25th through May 30th. I have a couple of pieces in the show and there are a lot of fantastic artists participating. The opening reception is April 25th and begins at 7. Check it out if you can.
The right people, the right places, 12.07.2008 06:44 pm
I will be having my first art exhibition in Wilmington, NC in January. Colleen Ringrose and I will be showing our work at Bottega on Front Street from January 19- February 15 with an opening reception Friday January 23 from 7-10. All are welcome. The title is listed above. I will be showing some pieces from “The corners of my mind” series along with a couple of installations. Please come out if you can.
Welcome!, 10.15.2007 12:50 pm
I would like to welcome you to my personal web page. A few notes on navigating the site:
1. You can search the gallery by perusing a specific exhibition.
2. You can also search the gallery by using the keywords at the top of the page
3. If you would like more information about anything on the site, please do not hesitate to ask.
Artist’s Statement
One of the goals I have for teaching Drawing 1 students is to help them translate a 3 dimensional world onto a 2 dimensional piece of paper. This is both harder and easier for the student than people realize.
It is harder because we live in 3-D (actually 4-D, thanks time). Our brains are set up to help us navigate through space. This is why we generally can move through the day with out running into things. At the same time our brains are absorbing information that we want to remember for one reason or another. It could be a funny story, an interesting conversation, the plot to a television show, whatever. This becomes our reality and memory. I have no idea why I can tell you where I was when I purchased Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on tape (it was Record Alley; I rode my bike), but it must be important because I remember it. Conversely, I don’t remember every time my mom has said “I love you.” I would say it is too many times to count. However, maybe, to me, the purchasing of a cassette tape was more important. I am tortured by thoughts like this and I imagine my students are too, even if they are not aware of it.
So at some point, I ask them to record by hand whatever is in front of them at that exact moment. They have to turn all this interior stuff off and just observe. There are days when the interior stuff won’t turn off. Maybe they are caught up in their memories of a fight they had over breakfast or what celebrity is in rehab at the moment. We have to wade through memory and observation to make that drawing right. This is hard.
But it is also easy, because we are used to making a 2 dimensional world seem real. We can go to a movie or watch television and get emotionally involved in it enough that we remember it. We can read a book and the characters come to life. We can look at a 19th century landscape painting and admire it because it looks real. This is a concept that we are all familiar with, all the student has to do now to make that drawing is to do it in reverse. Everyone learns this quickly.
These drawings, paintings, photos and sculptures exist in between those 2 realms, observation and memory. They are initially based off the measures of the sheet music (a translation of 2-D into 4-D), a car manual, architecture and daily observations via a journal. They are undoubtedly influenced by both my anxiety and love. I want the work to feel concrete and amorphous. There are small memories that are concrete to me. There are large ideas that feel hazier. Two dimensions into four dimensions and four dimensions into two. Which is more real to you?
Thanks for looking and responding.