Charcoal Studies
In 2011, a fire destroyed a studio in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. A stack of old charcoal drawings on newsprint survived. They became the seed for this body of work.
In 2011, a fire destroyed a studio in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. A stack of old charcoal drawings on newsprint survived. They became the seed for this body of work.
The paintings in this cycle are based on events and ideas that leave significant marks on our collective and individual bodies. They are rendered using sgraffito, in acrylics on canvas.
These paintings contain executable computer code. For example, a script for sed, the text manipulation program written in the mid 1970s at Bell Labs. The code painted on one canvas will substitute certain words in Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince".
A long running inquiry into the Abstract Expressionist messaging about the sublime. Based mostly on the writings of Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newman, these pieces can be seen as conversations between me and idealized versions of the American artists of the fifties.
Ninety-four questions about painting, as proxy for all art, were written on the gallery walls. A selection of my own answers were made concrete as artworks, inside and outside of the gallery.
Paintings inspired by the the demoscene, a subculture made up of groups and solo artists engaging in competition and collaboration on technical and artistic projects.
