This week I had the honor of presenting about my work and research driven artistic practice a Lunch & Learn event put on by Austin Peay’s Office of Student Research and Innovation. My wonderful colleague Barry Jones got a great picture of me pointing at an Incomplete and Open Cube. He says I make strange gestures when I talk. I say it’s the sculpture that makes me throw shapes.
Thanks to Dr. Frank Ferdik for the invitation to share my work with students across the university.
_My Side of the Mountain_ studio install
Plastic, camera, monitor, video, motion tracking program
Named for the YA novel that was popular in the 1980s in which a teenager lives a survivalist lifestyle on his family’s land and befriends a falcon, this work looks at the intersection between survivalism and surveillance.
In the ideal setup, the computer could be hidden or placed on the ground (no plastic bins!). There is only one plug needed. The bird camera eye needs to face an area with pedestrian traffic to pick up the tracking and place it into the forest video.
In the past few weeks my piece The Desire for Birds Provokes the Desire for Stones has won Best Experimental Film Laurels from the Festival of Short Film in the UK and Honorable Mention from the Experimental Forum in Los Angeles.
It was first shown at, and completed for, my exhibition at Cerritos College Art Gallery in 2024. @cerritosgallery
My workplace for the morning! Thanks so much to Sam’s Sports Grill at Blue Turtle Bay, a local Old Hickory business, for giving me permission and time to come in and scan their coyote for a project I am working on. It was a great model, held perfectly still while I scanned it with a couple of different programs and tools.
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Thanks Joe Nolan and the Nashville Scene for the amazing mention in the Winter Arts Guide. I am so proud of the work in this show and happy to be sharing the space with Beth Reitmeyer. Time is running out to see the show at RADAR615. Last day for the show is Saturday. Word is the gallery has power so swing by and see the show if you are getting out and about.
@mightyjoenolan@nashvillescene@beth.reitmeyer@radarprojects615
New Interview with McLean Fahnestock @mcfahnestock by contributor Rachel Bubis @raybeanz — now on The Focus
#mcleanfahnestock #interview #nashville #tennessee #locatearts
Decoy Flock Egregore
Video sculptures
Plastic, led screens, continuously looping video, silent
See the work through January 31st at Radar in Wedgewood Houston, Nashville, TN.
The seagull is a bird of duality. It is a symbol of the romance of the shore, soaring on the ocean breezes, and it is also the bird of parking lots, fighting over empty chip bags. In the video component of this work, the bird character faces that dual nature, in location, and more broadly; organic versus inorganic, nature and hardscape, real and unreal.
Dominion
Digital video and stop motion with gold leaf
Stereo sound
1:54 minutes
(detail video clip)
This work is currently on display at Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
For more information, visit my website. Link in my bio
Drum Solo: Hyperbole for the Undiscovered Country
installed at Radar615, Wedgewood Houston, Nashville, TN through January 31st
Me for scale.
@radarprojects615
#videoart
Last night was fabulous. Thanks to @radarprojects615 and Lain York @atomicpork for the opportunity to show these works alongside Beth Reitmeyer’s installation @beth.reitmeyer and the underground hip hop performance of Guts Galore crew. Thanks to all who came out for the opening. Radar615 at 516 Hagan will have hours so you can stop by and see the work.
If you want to meet up for coffee and gallery chat, send me a message!
I’ll post images and video in the days to come.
Saturday January 3rd, 5pm
Radar615
516 Hagan St, Nashville, TN
With Beth Rietmeyer and ggNouveau
in with the new
@beth.reitmeyer@radarprojects615
Video stills from new sculptures.
Tonight! I will be lecturing at Watkins College of Art at Belmont University as part of their Creative Professionals Lecture Series. The lecture, Constructing (a) Place in Time will cover my work in video and video installation specifically how I utilize time as a medium and content.
The lecture is at 5pm in the Leu Center for the Visual Arts – Rm 120
Link for more info: /engage/event/11387828
