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Model Bunker (1:1.625 scale) |
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Model of San Francisquito Powerhouse #2 |
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Model of San Francisquito Powerhouse #2 |
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| Artist Statement |
I want to know everything. Unfortunately, my chances of knowing-it-all appear hopeless when comparing what I know (very little) to what I don’t and may never know (everything else). This academic sublime could be soul-crushing, so instead I must settle for the next best thing: making stuff up, and then knowing a lot about that stuff. Like an armchair scientist, I work primarialy with models. Models are imagined as smaller, simplified replicas of larger, complicated systems. Ironically, excitingly, and sadly, models are as complicated as their sources. Baudrillard’s map makers didn’t need anything as outlandish as a 1:1 scale map; a map of any scale will contain information of a density that is comparable with that which is mapped. This pedagogical/existential dilemma neatly parallels the crisis of identity in environment, the struggle to create and sustain a persona within a vastly more significant context. Self is to other as known is to unknown. The boundaries between these pairs are tenuous, and the separation seems necessary, but not necessarily real. It takes as much effort to maintain a sense of identity as it takes to manufacture knowledge. This, where ontology and epistemology blur together, is what I examine with my work. Topology, recreations, homeomorphism, and language are all shortcuts to “knowing it all” and finding the self. The approaches I’ve taken in my work are not determined by a particular medium, but instead take the form of a series of inquisitive actions. I’ve grouped images of objects drawn on paper in homoeomorphic sets in an attempt to override narrative and poetically implicate the viewer in the creation of meaning. I’ve created volumes of “Two Word Poems” that function similarly, but linguistically. I’ve created models with problematic subject/object relationships, including a cardboard replica of a sound speaker made from its own packaging, and a model kit viewable only through the door its pieces were cut out of. I’ve altered my own history, via forged official documents, in an attempt to force myself to fit into my own expectation of my environment. I’ve literally marked what I know from what I don’t know with banal bookmarks that depict instances of false documents in history. I ‘ve then expanded these bookmarks to “life-size” vinyl banners. I’ve mapped out all of the cross-referenced entries from entire dictionaries. And still, I don’t know all that much.
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May 10, 2008 6:57 PM
thank you for the add.
be sure to check out my blog
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Apr 04, 2008 10:35 AM
Great art. Do you ever show in NY?
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Jan 04, 2008 7:33 PM
hey thanks for the add... have a great year....
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Apr 13, 2007 9:24 PM
wow!!! the art work is great!!!!
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Broken Windows, Perfect Unrest, State of Alert
May 17th - June 15th at Sea and Space Explorations
Opening Reception Saturday, May 17th, 8 - 11pm
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| C.V. |
Born in Houston, TX.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Education California Institute of the Arts, MFA 2007 Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, France, 2004 University of Houston, Main Campus, BFA in Studio Art, minors in Sociology and Art History, 2004 San Jacinto Junior College, AA in Behavioral Science, 1998 Selected Exhibitions
2008
Broken Windows, Perfect Unrest, State of Alert, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles
A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours, Gallery D301, Valencia
2007
Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach
For Ever: CalArts MFA Graduation Exhibition, 915 Mateo, Los Angeles
Heavy Weather, Gallery D301, Valencia
2006 Captive, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach
CalArts MFA Mid-Residency Exhibition, L-Shape Gallery, Valencia
Luck of the Draw V, Diverseworks, Houston
What I Learned My First Year in Grad School, Law Offices, Houston
Joint Rolling and Witchcraft, Gallery A402, Valencia
Two Word Poems, Stevenson Blanche Gallery, Valencia
What I Like About Texas, Polvo, Chicago [Curator: Teresa O’Connor]
ArtStar Collaborative, Dean’s Credit Clothing, Houston 2005 The Door Show, CalArts Annex, Valencia
Face, Art Car Museum, Houston
FAMfest : Film, Arts and Music Festival, University of St. Thomas, Houston
Cutthroat!, UH Garrison Building, Houston [Curator: Paul Kittleson] 2004 Flex, Small Projects Gallery, Houston [Curator: Rachel Hecker]
Buffalo Bayou Art Park Xmas Tree Show, Wortham Theater, Houston
Exposition D'Etudiant, Galerie des Bois D'Amour, Pont-Aven
La Fete des Cabanes, Kerevennou a Nizon, Nizon
The Third Annual Sculpture Garden Show, South Park Annex, Houston 2003 11th Annual Artist’s Warehouse ArtCrawl: University of Houston Juried Sculpture Show, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston [Curators: the Art Guys] 2002 Thomas Edison’s Workshop, Circa 1931, UH South Park Annex, Houston 2001 Make It Fit , PJ’s Upstairs, Houston Curatorial Projects 2006 It Was the Blurst of Times, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston 2005 Immodest Proposals 2005 (Buffalo Bayou ArtPark), Space 125, Houston 2004 Landmine Fantasy (juried by Wes Heiss), Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston 2003 Rock, Paper, Scissors (with Brittany Bly) Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston Press Aram Moshayedi, Ten by Ten, http://www.uber.com/243281229, April 2007. Dusti Rhodes, “Getting the Words Wrong,†Houston Press, October 12, 2006, p29. Lisa Gray, “My Work,†Houston Chronicle: Zest, July 14, 2006, p9. Duncan MacKenzie and Richard Holland, Bad at Sports, podcast, January 8, 2006. Tim Moloney, “Cultural Clash,†002 Magazine, August, 2005, p25. Bob Stevenson, The Front Row, KUHF Radio, Houston, Texas, July 27, 2005. Troy Schulze, “Let’s Be Unreasonable,†Houston Press, July 14, 2005, p28. Michael Woodson and Robert A. Pruitt, LivingArt, KPFT Radio, Houston, Texas, July 8, 2005. Steve Devadanam, “‘Fantasy’ Date,†Houston Press, March 10, 2005, p30.
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