18 Happenings in 6 Parts at LACE

Tonight I was invited to participate in Steve Roden's re-creation of Allan Kaprow's "18 Happenings in 6 Parts" at LACE. For 5 minutes I painted on one side of canvas while Elizabeth Leister painted the opposing side. What fun! Here are some pics.

Collapse II Installation: Oil Painting, Video Projection, Lighting Apparatus, Electrical Cords, and Mylar

So Inclined, Gesso on Paper, 60"x60", 2008

Post Study, Gesso on Paper, 24"x18", 2008

Willful Futility, Second Term Review, Mar 19, 2008

Light Over Matter, Electrical cord, lightbox, PlexGlass, X-Rays, and Ink on Mylar, Dimensions Variable, 2008

Monolith...Pinned Down, Gesso on Found Objects (Pedestal and X-Ray), 36" x 14", 2008

Slight Return, Gesso, Oil and Spray Paint on Canvas, 71"x35", 2008

NonTitle (None), Gesso and Oil on Canvas, 10"x10", 2008

NonTitle (Line), Gesso and Oil on Canvas, 10"x10", 2008

NonTitle (Pos), Gesso and Oil on Canvas, 10"x10", 2008

In Two Rates of Decay, Gesso on Canvas, 72x144, 2008

NonVeils, Gesso on Canvas, 72x72, 2008

Collapse II (Blindfolded), Gesso and Oil on Canvas, 72x72, 2008

Drone, Gesso and Oil on Canvas, 65x39, 2007

Inverse, Gesso on Canvas, 65x38, 2007

Black One (Blindfolded), Gesso and Oil on Canvas, 72x72, 2007

Invisible Design (Blindfolded), Gesso and Oil on Canvas, 72x72, 2007

Collapse I (Blindfolded), Gesso and Oil on Canvas, 72x72, 2007

Back Flip Into the Abyss

After a month of grad school, I decided to make radical changes with my work. I was inspired, in part, by a 2-day workshop in September with renowned Butoh performer Oguri. One aspect of his presentation focused on slowness through total body awareness in memory, space and time. I began to think more about the kind of actions needed to accomplish paintings and how I could materialize these elements in my own work. I began by inverting every aspect of my tendencies opting for a radically changed palette, employing less conventional tools, reordering processes, experimenting with a wider range of materials, and complicating matters with varying levels of distancing in both visibility and temporality. Thusly, I would spend the next several months making paintings somewhere between conscious and unconscious states looking for subtler shades of perception.

Red Against Emerald, Oil on Canvas, 48"x48", 2007

Spring, Oil on Canvas, 48"x48', 2007

Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 24"x24", 2007

Spiral Cluster, Oil On Canvas, 24 x 24, 2007

Latitudes and Meridians, Oil on Canvas, 72"x72", 2006

Particle Flow, Oil on Canvas, 24"x36", 2006

Solaris:Shifting, Oil on Canvas , 36"x36", 2006

Currents, Ink/Mylar, 18"x24", 2006

Tributaries, Ink/Mylar, 18"x24", 2006

Capillary Hinterland: Verso, Ink/Mylar, 18"x24", 2006

Accelerating, Ink/Mylar, 18"x 24", 2006

Silent World, Ink/Mylar, 18"x24", 2006

Milky Way, Ink/Mylar, 18"x24", 2006

Transformation: Hidden Worlds, Oil on Canvas, 24"x24", 2006

Transformation: Nuclear Furnace, Oil on Canvas, 36"x36", 2006

Brane, Oil on Canvas, 36"x36", 2006

Solaris: Particles and Strings, Oil on Canvas, 36"x 50", 2006

Returning to the One, Oil on Canvas, 36"x36", 2006

Transformation:Gobi, Oil on Canvas, 36"x36", 2006

Welcome

Many of you asked to see images. So, I decided to start a blog to show work. As much as possible I will post work closest to the date of completion though that may fall out of sequence a bit since I work on many things at once. Sometimes I say the second thing first.