I am happy to announce my first curatorial project, Layered Intersections; a collaborative project with Joshua Thompson. Layered Intersections is a group show featuring ten artists investigating and challenging themes of abstraction and representation. While each maker has a distinct mark and method, moments in time overlap, compound and accumulate. Movement ebbs and flows through periods of marked stillness to instances of active vibrations. Loud and quiet, vibrant and pale, smooth and rough – these various stages or seasons of space and time are reflected in choice of media and content.
Installation shot by Rafael Soldi at Plank Gallery
Good news, the show In Between Doing & Undoing has been extended throughNovember. There will be a closing reception on Saturday, November 18th from 1-9 pm at Plank Gallery.
Photo of yours truly and Joshua Thompson next to our work by Rafael Soldi
Plank Gallery is located at 3913 Airport Way South in Georgetown.
Please join us for the opening reception of In Between Doing & UndoingatPlank Gallery on October 14th from 6-10 pm. I will be featuring new work alongside Joshua Thompson. Together we are presenting a series of pairings as layered metaphors. Through the process of repeatedly making and unmaking, surfaces and metaphors begin to simultaneously hide and unveil themselves. Paintings, assemblages and collages expose the physicality of materials through cyclical processes and their implied psychological states of being.
For the past five years I have been collecting and filling moleskins with drawings. They have accompanied me in my travels overseas, across the country, to different cities, waiting rooms, teacher meetings, airports - any place that I visit long enough to capture in pen. Below is my most recent journey.
This weekend, April 1 - 2nd, I will be exhibiting in the Bemis Spring Arts Show. I will be featuring a new site specific installation, The Not so Still, Still Life, made of hanging assembled and found objects (shown below) as well as miniature tin assemblages (shown above in video).
Tiny Human Moments is a collaborative installation created with artist and art educator Amanda Amsel. It is currently on view in Amazon's western window in South Lake Union Seattle, WA, on Harrison and Boren St. This project is supported and funded by Shunpike's Storefronts program and will be exhibited from March until July 2017.
I am excited to be participating in the show, Everyone's in 3D, at The Alice gallery in Georgetown, Seattle WA. This is an annual tradition at The Alice that will be exhibiting participants work in a large wunderkammer-style exhibition that will run from December 17 - January 14. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, December 17 from 5-8pm, and the closing will take place during Georgetown Art Attack on January 14.
Opens Thursday, Dec. 8th 5-9pm during Capitol Hill Art Walk On view through Feb. 5th, 2017
These works explore the aesthetics of advertisements used to promote the everyday consumer object. Mini tin collages are created with repurposed retro advertisements and packaging of home goods; inspired by the color, type and graphics of bygone American consumerism culture. Marketed vices range from Jamaican rum to drip coffee to chewing tobacco and corn syrup with imitation maple flavor. Cut, rotated and nailed together these labels are reconfigured with trademarks of household necessities like Band-Aids and glue.
