Just a few days left to see “Geomorphic Agents” @smackmellon - up through 8/8.
Image: A view looking up at the installation “Thirty Years.”
Batik on shear silk organza, aluminum framing, threaded rod
#batik #landscapepainting #endorheicbasin #aridlands @usgs_climate@nasaearth
📸 (cropped)Image courtesy of Smack Mellon. Photo: Etienne Frossard
Thanks everyone for making out to @smackmellon for the opening of my show, Geomorphic Agents, last Saturday. It was great to see so many friends and family getting together again. More events to come this month. Stay tuned!
Preparing for “Geomorphic Agents” a project upcoming this summer at Smack Mellon.
The show will mostly be comprised of paintings(batik on sheer silk organza). Batik is a wax and dye/resist painting process. I wanted to share some of the process.
The imagery is mostly based on declassified satellite imagery from the USGS archives with an emphasis on the American West and Central Asia. The imagery points to the history of ancient hydraulic societies compared with the modern day land reclamation projects of the U.S and Soviet Union.
This work will be included in a show @huddle215 in Philadelphia as part of the @falloffreedom initiative. My current work is focused on 20th century infrastructures, including the monumental “land reclamation” projects in the American west. In this iteration, I’ve imagined a vignette of an engineered domestic lawn.
Million Acre Feet, 2023
I’ve been working on a few of these sculptures made with copper pipes and a jeweler’s saw which I plan to bring together in a larger installation. I see them as fictional, engineered desert flora crafted to resemble various stages of bloom and desiccation - with a backdrop of the American West in mind.
I donated this artwork for the MAD museum benefit auction which is now live on artsy through October 24th at noon.
/mad-ball
I started a series of works at MAD as one of the artists in residence - making overlapping , geographically scaled paintings that depict the analogous movements of migrating birds detected by weather radar and sprawl, facilitated by the American Interstate Project as seen from above. Both radar and the interstate being hallmarks of 20th century infrastructure changed our sense of time and space.
My residency @madmuseum ended last week. It was a unique experience and too short. The studios are open to museum goers, so on any given day artists in residence might have 20 people come through. It was challenging to balance work and communication, but I had the opportunity to speak with a wide range of folks - pathologists, geologists, engineers, historians, kids, teens , all of whom gave some the most insightful observations.
I met a racoon in Central Park and split my sandwich with him.
Thank you @madmuseum
Some studio works in progress- unintentionally conflating subject matter
Foreground: copper sculptures
based on my fascination with land reclamation and desert flora.
Background: template imagery for silk paintings. Images depict radar reflectivity which captures migratory bird activity.
