Transparency, grids, layers, text, lines.

Disease Cell Recreation

Line and Point: Disease Cell arrived at Curious Matter looking less like a sphere and more like a pile of toothpicks interspersed with bits of styrofoam- totally destroyed! Check out Raymond and Arthur's documentation of its appearance upon arrival (above, top row). Raymond and Arthur (artists and owners of Curious Matter) were kind enough to reassemble the piece so it will still be in the exhibition. 

Poison Evite

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Opening Soon!

The piece represented above, Line and Point: Disease Cell, will be on view at Curious Matter in Jersey City, New Jersey as part of their Poison exhibition April 5 - May 17, 2009. 

This piece explores growth and collection. The blob growths/collections of value points at the end of each stick function both individually, as tiny, singular paintings on a stick, and as individual points within the whole. I wanted to build a spherical painting using a three-dimensional structure and to explore the dialogue between line and point in physical space. Is the piece linear or spherical, a painting or a sculpture? 

I've worked mostly two-dimensionally since 2003. I started to get interested in what was going on on both the front and the back of the work I was making and saw the sphere as a way to explore that interest. 

I connected the idea of poison with disease. At age 11 I was diagnosed with Osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease predominantly characterized by frequent fractures. Implicit and explicit attitudes against disease and disorder abound. Is disease a fully negative, poisonous thing or are there points when it can be generative? The piece functions as a large-scale model of an imaginary cell or molecule. 

I'm working on a Line and Point series. The goal is to make at least 20 pieces exploring the idea. 

Line and Point: Disease Cell, Styrofoam, wood, paint, 5 x 5 x 5". 

Currently on View

Untitled (Mesilla, NM), 2007 (above) is currently on view as part of Analogous at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico. Lucy R. Lippard juried the show. I traveled to Portales for the opening on Friday, January 30. The show looks great, the opening was well attended and the accompanying catalog is excellent. 

I hope your monitor conveys a strong contrast between the blue sky and the yellow/orange building and a value-based continuity between the windows in the van and the windows in the building.

Each artist was required to submit a statement no more than 100 words long for the catalog. My statement: "I work to capture situations in which temporal or chance conditions (most often light/shadow interplay, reflection and fragmentation or repetition due to placement) reorder my immediate environment and recharge the often overlooked."

Analogous closes February 25, 2009.

Happy Belated Valentine's Day!

Still working to clearly express the impression of three-dimensional space across a two-dimensional surface.