Last minute details being added to the Man Up! solo exhibition at York College of Pennsylvania
Desai Matta Gallery, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
Two life-size soldiers. Paper-mache boots, sewn felt hands with wire and paper-mache marionettes
Life-size soldier sitting in front of drone kites. Sculpture of Marine going around circus tent.
Life-size sculpture of soldier. Sewn felt head. Repurposed crow painted to resemble a bald eagle.
WAR is FUN! LuLuBell Toy Bodega, Tucson, AZ
Detail of mini tanks - screen print on felt
Plans to sew a felt tank
Visiting artist workshop at Sacramento City College with the printmaking students
Wall painting at West Virginia State University Della Brown Taylor Art Gallery
Anchor Graphics residency, Chicago, IL David Jones is helping me trouble shoot an issue I was having printing this woodcut
2 x 4 foot wood block print done at Anchor Graphics Residency. Columbia College, Chicago, Illlinois
2 x 4 foot wood block print done at Anchor Graphics Residency. Columbia College, Chicago, Illlinois
Stone lithograph made during Anchor Graphics residency in Columbia City College, Chicago, IL
Artopia! Seattle, WA. Cardboard Chinook helicopter based off of lithograph in previous slide. 14 feet long.
My mom and I right before I board my flight to Germany where I was stationed for 3 years
Exhibition at Ohio State University - Mansfield
Block prints on canvas, red parachutes and life-sized paratrooper. Exhibition at Ohio State University - Mansfield
A David and Goliath kind of moment
Close up of hand sewn fighter jet with pilot
Felt fighter jets flying through the exhibition
Detail of large felt tank surrounded by small felt tanks
Playing general
Small sculpture of a soldier in a spiral death dance.
Playing general watching stop-animation
Homeless veterans
Twice Removed, Ingham Chapman Gallery, University of New Mexico-Gallup, NM. 2-ton sandbag bunker with large painting mounted inside
24k gold-plated tank
Twice Removed - sand bag bunker (2-tons of sand) with gold-plated tank on larger black pedestal
WAR is FUN!, Sharadin Art Gallery Artist-in-Residence, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, PA
WAR is FUN!, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, PA
WAR is FUN!, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, PA
Screen print on felt
Large-scale felt board
WAR is FUN!, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, PA
WAR is FUN!, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, PA
Detail of felt jet planes, hand sewn
Using gallery lights to play with shadows on the walls of the crashing jet planes
WAR is FUN!, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, PA
10-ton sandbag bunker with painting mounted inside
A gallery visitor on opening night using the 'binoculars' to view small sections of the large painting mounted inside of the bunker
8 feet wide painting on duck cloth that gets mounted inside of bunker. Not meant to be viewed all at once.
25th Faculty Exhibition, Indiana University- Bloomington, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Audio comes from speakers mounted inside missile with instructions on how to feel better about yourself
Detail of canvas with camouflage color schemes on A-10 aircraft
Detail of A-10 aircraft
MAN UP!, Marketview Arts Gallery, York, PA. The TV monitor hung above the processing table was connected to a security camera inside the gallery space so the people getting ready to enter the gallery could surveil the people already inside
MAN UP!, Marketview Arts Gallery, York, PA
Entrance of Man Up! Visitors were handed a questionnaire that asked for pretty detailed info before entering the gallery. It was not mandatory but they were not told that by the student actors. It was surprising what kind of personal info people are willing to give away from their SSN to home addresses.
The General and his men is meant to represent the image of the president of the US giving speeches with the VP and Speaker of the House sitting directly behind. The general has a bullhorn for a mouth and the audio he broadcast is audio I collaged together from the documentary 'Basic Training' by Frederick Wiseman
Opening of MAN UP!, Marketview Arts Gallery, York, PA.
Paper-mache soldier on cloth-mache parachute
Drone Target Kites based off ones used in WWII
I like theatrical lighting to set an anxious space filled with shadows
A boy's bedroom lies just inside the house.
Exhausted after 3 full weeks installing this show
Write-up about MAN UP!, Marketview Arts Gallery, York, PA
48 mixed-media prints/collage. Man UP! Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Group exhibion - Man UP! Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
48 Mixed-media prints on paper. Stone lithograph, hand printed type set, linocut and collage
Detail of mixed-media prints
Working on a litho stone in my studio at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
OH YEAH! Eleanor Prest Reese Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
Oh Yeah! solo exhibition at the Herron School of Art and Design. Indianapolis, Indiana
My idea was based off of the Kool-Aid Man busting through walls
Soldier peering through window
A mini-tank busting through the wall
Porcelain tanks and mixed-media prints
Porcelain tank
Porcelain tank with clear glaze
Porcelain tank with gold finish
2nd Triennial Printmaking Invitational, Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University
Up & Coming, Gallery 1308, University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI
Detail of exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jennifer Angus, Professor of Design Studies in the Textile and Apparel Design Program invited me to work with her students creating patterns and printing fabric using my imagery. Great day and learned a ton.
I have used these fabrics to make elements for my installations
On a friends door in Brooklyn, NYC
Seattle- STart on Broadway
WAR is FUN!, Sound Transit: STart on Broadway Public Art Project - Sound Transit, Seattle, WA
Detail of Sound Transit exhibition. Missile made from air conditioning duct.
Detail of Sound Transit exhibition. Screen print on felt.
Detail of Sound Transit exhibition. Screen print on felt.
Detail of Sound Transit exhibition. Screen print on felt.
Since the buildings were slated for demolition the artists had free reign inside the space. I repurposed the heating duct into a missile.
Detail of Sound Transit exhibition. Screen print on felt and wall painting.
After the building were destroyed.
Double-sided painting, Bloomington, Indiana
Close-up of pilot
Double-sided painting, Bloomington, Indiana
El Levante Art Residency, Rosario, Argentina
Walking the airplane through Rosario, Argentina
I wanted to see if the plane could fly so we set it on fire and launched it off of a pedestrian overpass in Rosario, Argentina
It dove straight into the ground
University of Arizona, Tucson. Solo exhibition.
What Lies Beneath Lies, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
What Lies Beneath Lies, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Close-up of felt hand sewn head.
Close-up of felt hand sewn head.
Close-up of felt hand sewn head.
Close-up of felt hand sewn head.
Close-up of felt hand sewn heads.
Paper-mache, latex, acrylic and parachute cord
Working with printmaking students at Ohio University during my Artist-in-Residence. We made a ton of the target kites- screen printing, sewing and then exhibiting!
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The drill instructor greets the visitor with audio from "Basic Training" by Frederick Wiseman
Soldier in exhibition.
The uniforms are from veterans and they are painted white for the white art cube they are displayed in
Close-up of the Drone Target Kites. Each drone is one that is used in the US military.
A soldier is being lifted off the ground and he attempts to hold the entire fleet of Drone Target Kites
A soldier is being lifted off the ground and he attempts to hold the entire fleet of Drone Target Kites
Artist-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Printmaking Department, Boulder, CO
Artist-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Printmaking Department, Boulder, CO
Visual Arts Building Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Soldier in exhibition.
Soldier in exhibition.
Soldiers in exhibition.
Beyond Imagination, Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Screen printed tents at University of Kentucky.
You Get What You Pay For, with Tomiko Jones, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO
During a trip to Europe, Tomiko Jones and I collected video and audio of unsuspecting people- we looked at it as gathering surveillance footage. We then projected 7 channels of video using projectors and monitors above and around the bed. The drone kites added to the dream-like setting.
Visitors in the surveillance room.
Air Traffic: control, with Tomiko Jones, The Rocket Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Cardboard police helicopter with video projector in empty storefront downtown Tucson, AZ.
Tucson police helicopters with spotlights. Also air force jets overhead as they made their descent to the AFB. We replicated that with extremely loud audio of jets, helicopters and silence.
It’s Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas, with Tomiko Jones, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. This was based off of a racist note inside a Xmas card I found in a book in a Thrift Store in Springfield, MO.
Sewing little parachutes. Paint with 4 coats of gesso to hold their shape when hung. Lamp with painted base and War is Fun! lampshade.
Order Up!
Sketch for a proposal to the Kohler ceramics residency
Screen print of a rack of 2nd place and acceptable ribbons
Felt ribbons with epaulettes
Stone lithograph, 22 x 30 inches
"The First Supper" One of the first pieces of art that I made that I got positive reactions on. This was before I had much artistic training way back in the year 2000 when I was living in Birmingham, Alabama
