Public Installations & Community ProjectsĢ023 The Gifting Project: Iteration One – Vast array of micro-canvases, NYC, NYĢ023 Are You An Art Sucker? – 75-piece scavenger hunt, NYC, NYĢ023 14 Annual Nimbus Arts Nimbash Auction, St. The goal is the substantiation of imagination: fooling the eye into seeing things it never imagined could exist, and then going beyond to ask for willing participation in a different way of seeing the world around us, externally and internally.Ģ022 December Featured Artist, Nua Collective, Dublin, IREĢ022 May Featured Artist, Artios Gallery, New York, NYĢ021 Nominated, Best of the Net Anthology, for cover art, by 805 Lit + ArtĢ021 December Featured Artist, Artios Gallery, New York, NYĢ021 November Featured Artist, Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA Movements out of flat planes create multivalent pieces: sculptural mixed media using canvas or wood as a base for horizontal presentations, painterly mixed media intended to be hung from vertical surfaces, and modular work on multiple substrates which can combine infinitely through the structural use of magnets. I create work which collapses clear distinctions via aufhebung, the negation of negation: both paint and sculpture, both presence and absence, both expectation and result. I seek a reckoning with the artwork as a presence unto itself, and the use of these more “exotic” mediums in concert with natural and UV lights and self-created soundscapes produces a moment of active tension both in person and via digital reproduction. The goal is creating what I call deep patterns, which elicit a Jungian sense of collective knowledges and connections. I use metallic, iridescent, and fluorescent acrylics, textures that lift the paint from the canvas, and a variety of hot glues which add dimensionality to the surfaces.

My work creates unexpected moments of precariousness.

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