Artist Statement

Recently, through my art, I have been considering the difference between a monster and a giant, the potential that lies between.
My work has been occupying a ground between ritual and play, seemingly coming from some other place.  Are they cultural objects more than art objects? If they are cultural objects, from whom or where?  My work is not at the service of metaphor, and I can’t seem to abandon beauty in the presence of concept.
The strangeness of the work, hopefully, lingers like residue.
The body of my work fits within the tradition of New Genres, and I’ve been exhibiting in Los Angeles over the last two years in spaces responsive to that tradition.

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Education

M.F.A, New Genres Department, San Francisco Art Institute; 1998.

B.A.- Fine Arts major, language minor at University of Nevada, Reno; ‘93.

Recent exhibitions and performance art

solo

-Treehouse Gallery, Los Angles- red lips, war paint, half a horse: solo exhibition; Oct/Nov. 2007.

-Roof Top Room 200 Polaroids: Photographs and installation in Tucson Arizona at the Hotel Congress; ‘04.

-Exit Gallery; Reno, NV: photographs; ‘03.

-The Lear Theatre: Live at the Lear, solo exhibition of objects and images, Reno; ‘01.

- ideas don’t care, some people included, China Town, S.F.: performance; text, apples, wire and Mandarin

phrases; ‘99.

- a wetness reflecting an observation: performance at 2033 N. Pacific Avenue, empty lot, Santa Cruz;

apple, body, incandescent light; ‘98.

-What Is Art?, Performance Space, Santa Cruz: stomach heart throat- performance; ‘97.

- poached, blue on the floor of alpine lakes; performance at 7,000 ft, PCT crossing, Sierra Nevada; ‘97.

-Tahoe Gallery: locate time, place location- two week installation and one night performance; ‘96.

Selected group

-Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno NV- Significantly Others: group exhibition, single channel video; Dec 09-Feb 2010.

-Workspace, Los Angeles- excess/access: object, group of five artists; Nov. 08.

-Works Gallery, San Jose: single channel video, group exhibition; July. 08.

-Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno NV- Wittgenstein’s Bath: group show, video projection; Sept. 08.

-1050 Gallery, Reno NV.-Basement Show: group exhibition, single channel video projection; May 2008.

-Unitard Gallery, Los Angeles: group exhibition, sculpture; June 2007.

-AM Project, Los Angeles CA: single channel video art, group show; March ‘07.

-Squaw Valley Remote Viewing: group exhibition, sculptures; Oct. 2006.

-Stremmel Gallery, Reno – Simply Seven: 10-12 sculptures in a group exhibition; July 2006.

-Chapterhouse Gallery, Reno NV: object in a group exhibition; Nov. 04.

-Chapterhouse Gallery, Reno NV: photograph in a group exhibition; August ‘04.

-Sheppard Gallery, Reno: Society for Photographic Education, Regional Photography Exhibition: University

of NV, Reno; ‘03.

-Running the Table: Bruno’s Country Club, Gerlach NV: photography exhibit/intervention; ‘02.

-Tahoe Gallery, Incline Village NV: Slow and Stop; curated group exhibition; ‘02.

-Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery: El Corazon, group exhibition at University of NV, Reno; ‘01, ‘02, ‘04.

-Tahoe Gallery: Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Sierra Nevada College Fine Arts Faculty; ‘00.

-Santa Cruz Dance Gallery: Brief Lungs, Exceptional Breaths- performance and installation; ‘98.

-Lincoln St Studio: Makeshift; spitting out sacred heart (2)- installation by three S.F. artists, Santa Cruz, CA; ‘97.

-Visual Arts Gallery, UC San Diego: Red Acrobat- group show of “objects” curated by AJ Escobar; ‘97.

D3ms collaborative exhibitions:

note:  d3ms was a collaborative that existed from 2001 until 2004.   The five artists involved were: myself, Joseph Delappe, Tamara Scronce, Russell Dudley and Laurie Macfee.

(See: http://www.unr.edu/art/D3MS%20site%20progress/MAIN%20frames%20new/d3ms%20MAIN.html)

-Refusalon gallery, San Francisco: scope art/ culture on the verge, Los Angeles; ‘04.

-Works Gallery, San Jose CA: Poker Face; ‘03.

-Art on Site 2, Tel Aviv- Officespace (Hallal Misradi): group exhibition; ‘03.

-d3ms two day collaborative, 882- 27^th Ave, San Francisco; Jan. 18 and 19, ‘02.

-d3ms one night collaborative, 2295 Dickerson Rd. Studio, Reno; Dec. ‘01.

-Refusalon and Sheppard Gallery- Reknow, Santa Fe: curated group show; ‘01.