Category: News

Almost finished with my PDXWLF installation! You can see it from Feb 3rd – 11th.

Opening night on Feb 3rd First Friday will also include open studios, live music, and fire dancing.

“Brightly shining from within, the installation imagines the tangible reality of ocean pollution as the dream landscape of our civilization. Gently breathing, the assemblage is both the physical and psychological flotsam of our interconnected civilization. Swimming in endless waves of plastic particulate and glowing trash, viewers will be invited into the luminous ghost net of recovered marine debris and metaphysical light.”

Disgorged by the Ocean into Liminal Brightness 

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be part of The Seventh Generation project this year. My piece, Perpetua, was completed plein air at the Strawberry Hill Wayside on the Oregon coast. I’m excited to be a part of this amazing conservation project, and I will be giving a talk on during the opening night in Lincoln City.

“For The Seventh Generation is about connecting with place over time. We are forming a one-hundred year arts organization whose reason for being is the ocean. We want to make art that functions at the center of human life, not at its edges. Our showcase event is the For The Seventh Generation Project, The one-mile Pano-Mural for the Washington, Oregon, and California coasts. Our guiding sentiment is “Above all else, a healthy ocean.” The lengthy time aspect referred to by the title is from a notion that we need to think within a longer time frame to address our problems. We need to make choices not just for ourselves an our generation, or for our children or even our grandchildren, but to acknowledge that this is the only planet that any of us will ever have, for all species, for all life, and that we share this planet with the future. Our decisions should reflect that.”

Finally got my new works from last year photographed. Ian at Shoot Your Art did an amazing job as always. I’m amazed every time at the difference professional photography can make.

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Originally written for the Love Politik show at Blackfish Gallery, The Disfigurement of Our Most Cherished Ideals in Pursuit of Their Physical Embodiment finally has its words.

“…Despite attempts to map the unknowable expanse of reality, the totality of existence is axiomatically itself rather than the means used to perceive it. When, however, in the face of our greater humanity, the pursuit of the ideal takes precedence over the real an unavoidable conflict occurs. No matter the passion or progress made in pursuit of the ideal, the reality of the world unavoidably diverges and it is often our reaction to this shortcoming that forms the ultimate outcome of our pursuits…”

You can read the full piece here.

Two news ones for 2020. Better images coming soon.

My political piece “The Disfigurment of Our Most Cherished Ideals in Pursuit of Their Physical Embodiment” will be part of The Love Politik show opening this First Thursday. The show will run through November, and can be visited either in person or online at Blackfish.com. I will also be doing a brief Q&A at 8:40 pm.

I’m proud to be showing work at Verum Ulitmum and Splendorporium this month. Don’t miss the shows!

Opening receptions:

• 1.10.20: Luna | Splendorporium | 7 – 9 PM
• 1.11.20: A Generous Kingdom | Verum Ulitmum | 6 – 8 PM

New piece “Perfection of Discriminative Awareness”

Also, in anticipation of prints, I’ve had professional photos taken of some older pieces.