I’m fortunate to have made it through lockdown in good health for myself and those around me, and during that time I was also lucky enough to have continued opportunities to share my artwork in some really fun and fascinating exhibitions. Here are a few.
My piece Chromatic Array was included in the Wassaic Projects 2020 Summer Exhibition. Originally intended to be in person, it moved on line and was accompanied by a beautiful print edition.
A related piece, Chromatic Intervals, appeared in Minimum Space Requirements, an exhibition curated by Suzanne Dittenber, Luke Whitlatch and Jackson Martin under the auspices of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville. Appearing in a beautifully crafted Little Free Library-style box on the side of a hill in a residential neighborhood, the show was a fun and perfect display of hope and resilience during times that were still (and remain, even as I write this in 2022), very challenging.
Completed during the pandemic, this triptych titled Radial Harmonics II, I & III, was included in Place/Displace at Pratt Institute’s Schafler Gallery, curated by Linda Lauro Lazin. An exploration of the relationship between certainty/uncertainty and Utopian dreaming, much of the imagery and themes in these paintings continue to recur throughout my projects. In a way, it is a kind of a manifesto.
I contributed this piece, titled Hierophanies, to Light Show, curated by Ben Shattuck at DeDee Shattuck Gallery. Created while in residence at 77ART in Rutland, VT, Hierophanies is part of my continued exploration of projection as a source of light, and light as both meaning and medium. Projected onto 4 plexiglass boxes, the boxes seems to glow from within as images slowly drift by across them, periodically interrupted by wild prismatic flames. Hierophanies synthesizes themes of ecstatic vision (Anarkhos) with Utopian dreaming (Pure Phase City).
