Conflicted series considers ideas of the American West using the form of Italian Renaissance propaganda art: the prominence of flat construction/signage as signifier, cultural violence, and Giambolgna’s Rape of the Sabine and Centaur and Nessus as public art in Florence.
Executive Order 13526 series is developed from released, but redacted, FBI files on UFO’s. The works consider the value of redaction as an intentional strategy, a void which allows for infinite reconsideration and conspiracy, which tempts cultural monumentalization.
Safe: mini-installation
Safe II: A Pact Against Insight_ plaster, salt_ 18″x18″x20″
Safe I: Contagious Within A Certain Circumference_ gunpowder, hydrocal, salt_ 18″x18″x20″
Blocked I: A Death Mask Aesthetics _ plaster, pigment, paper_ 13″x12″x2.5″
Blocked I: A Death Mask Aesthetics _ (det)
Blocked II: A Harm’s Way, We Plunged Into_ plaster, pigment, paper_ 15″x12″x2.5″
Blocked III: Evidence Was Mounting_ plaster, pigment, paper_ 14″x12″x2.5″
Blocked IV: Someone Else Was A Moron_ plaster, pigment, paper_ 14″x12″x2.5″
Executive Order 13526 (file 13) _ pigment on paper_ 15″x22″
Executive Order 13526 (file 108) _ pigment on paper_ 15″x22″
Executive Order 13526 (file 84) _ pigment on paper_ 15×22
Executive Order 13256 (file 231) _ pigment, silver leaf on paper, 15″x22″
Executive Order 13526 (file 644)_ pigment on paper_ 15×22
Executive Order 13256 (file 92) _ pigment on paper, 15″x22″
Executive Order 13256 (file 498)_ pigment on paper, 15″x22″
Executive Order 13526 (file 301)_ pigment, gunpowder on paper_ 15×22
Executive Order 13526 (Dallas)_ Silverleaf, pigment on paper_ 15×22 inches
{det}
Safe: Niave is too Mild a Word_ silverleaf, graphite, pigment on paper_ 44×30 inches
Safe: Niave is too Mild a Word_ {det}
Safe: Textbook Abstraction without the Burden of Intimacy _ gunpowder, pigment on paper_ 44×30 inches
Safe: Textbook Abstraction without the Burden of Intimacy _ {det}
“Safe: We are in a High Season of Error”_ graphite on paper_ 44″x30”
Mass Ornament/Elegy series takes the form of conceptual minimalism, loading each shape with intention: such as the square footage of a defunct auto plant converted to inches in area, marked and burned, measured in centimeters and applied to the dewey decimal system to achieve new meaning. The work draws from readings of Kracauer’s “Mass Ornament,” “Dark Matter” by Gregory Sholette, and “Are you Working Too Much?” by E-flux journals.
Mass Ornament/Elegy: I Could Love You (324 The Political Process) _ pigment, gunpowder_30x22
Mass Ornament/Elegy: I Could Love You (324 The Political Process) [detail of grid and gunpowder]
Mass Ornament/Elegy: This Will Never End (885.6 Demosthenes)_ graphite, pigment on paper_ 30×22 in
Mass Ornament/Elegy: This Will Never End [detail of fade and striping]
Mass Ornament/Elegy: Give Me More (240 Christian Moral and Devotional Theology) _ gunpowder, graphite, pigment on paper_ 30×22 in
Mass Ornament/Elegy: Give Me More [detail of gunpowder burn and particulate]
Mass Ornament/Elegy: After the night when I wake up (215.2 Astronomy)_ graphite, pigment on paper_ 30×22 in
Mass Ornament/Elegy: After the night when I wake up (215.2 Astronomy) [detail of striping and fade]
Mass Ornament/Elegy (318 General Statistics of South America) _ 22″x15″
Mass Ornament/Elegy (178.1 Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages) _ 22″x15″
ass Ornament/Elegy (178.1 Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages into Consumption of Tobacco and Narcotics) _ 22″x15″