Exhibition: Field Work
Location: Chicago Urban Art Society

Field Work is the summer exhibition in my Seasonal Project for 2010. The entire show is focused on "dirt"- meaning topsoil, subsoil, loam, humus, and the like. I created color photograms on transparency of soil samples and B/W photograms of roots on paper. Also on display are sculptural and educational pieces that use the building process called "rammed earth".

Link: Chicago Urban Art Society

Commission: Light: Black, White and Grey
Location: Pavillion

I created a photogram using three of the lights that were showcased (for the first time in the USA) at this wonderful store in a group show. The lights themselves helped to expose the paper and I exposed their form as well with my light. Included are: "Matt light" from Llotlov Design Group, "Ray" and "Flax light" from Christien Meinderstma.

Link: Pavillion

Exhibition: Sakura (Cherry Blossom)
Medium: Photo/Video

A celebration of Japanese Sakura (Cherry Blossom) photographs shot in Yoshino, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan. Large scale prints and video will be exhibited at Pagoda Red from May 6 through June 25, 2010.

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Installation: Salt Room (Winter on the Moon)
Medium: Rock Salt and Photograms

This is an installation for winter. 3000 pounds of rock salt cover the floor with five piles of various heights. On the walls are photograms of salt experiments. Salt is healing, necessary for life, from outer space...

Link: Salt /photograms/

Book: The Time After by Doug Fogelson
Publisher: Front Forty Press (2009)

The Time After combines photography, essays, and design to speculate on the "post climate change" era, speaking to our changing understanding of the human role in the environment.

Link: Front Forty Press

Installation: Backwash
Medium: Corner Mounted C-print

This comission was for a lower lobby that people in the building use to go to the cafe and riverwalk on the edge of the Chicago River. A photograph of backwashing waves that turns the corner compliments the flow of escalators and people turning to enter/exit the restaurant. The color of the river water and signage in the restaurant are very close to the color in the print. Total length: 20 ft. wide by 4 ft. high, Left side: 7' x 4', Right side: 13' x 4'.

Link: 300nlasalle.com/

CD: Silences Sumire Return is Selective
Publisher: Ropeadope Digital (LP/CD/MP3)

Silences Sumire is Chicago's Charles Gorczynski and Thomas Faulds, hybrid-jazz musicians bent on electronics and new methods of improvisation. The two blend woodwinds and beats, strings and unlikely vocals through all sorts of machines and aesthetic codes. The current Chicago mentality shines through the songs, chopped-up, beautiful and brutal at the same time.

Link: silencessumire.com

Collaboration: with Donald Jackson
Medium: Lambda C-prints, vinyl, archival film tape

I gave the artist Donald Jackson a smattering of large prints to use as source material. This was the first time he worked with photography in this way, he usually uses paper, paint, etc... Donald used the back of the prints prominently also. Under the vinyl you can see traces of natural forms (in the yellow). The gesture of the drawing and collaged forms are a nice foil for the tape and photographic processes.

Link: Donald Jackson Studio

Installation: Causa Sui
Medium: Photographic Light Box

Sponsored by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs this is a 72 foot long by 5 foot high light box. Located in the pedway beneath Daley Plaza, the Civic Center of Chicago.

Link: Explorer Chicago

Installation: Camouflage & Semiotics
Medium: Duraclear, Plexiglas, mirror, framing light

This installation at the fashion atelier Hejfina addressed the public via the window display and on the wall inside. The pieces are intended to play with the viewers gaze and provide a simulacra of natural processes.

Link: Hejfina

Installation: Summer Exhibition
Location: Marlborough Chelsea

2008 Summer Group show at Marlborough Chelsea in NYC. Curated by Eric Gleason.

Link: Marlborough New York

Installation: Etheria
Location: Elmhurst Art Museum, Illinois

2007 Solo exhibition at EAM, sound piece in collaboration with Steve Shirk.

Link: Elmhurst Art Museum

Commission: Chicago Loop (28ft. x 6ft.)
Location: McCormick Place West Convention Center, Chicago

Permanent installation at the Western expansion of the convention center. Selected artists were commissioned to produce work about life in Chicago.

Link: McCormick Place

Commission: Period (of time)
Location: Wicker Park/Bucktown Public Library

Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs commissioned me to create a piece for the new library in my neighborhood. So I gathered a variety of newspapers that represented people and topics from the community over a year and then photographed them overlapped in camera. The news, weather, sports, death notices, crimes, etc... are like a kind of time capsule.

Link: chicagopubliclibrary.org

Collaboration: Design Within Reach w/Michael Koehler
Medium: walnut, plexiglas, duratrans, LED light

Michael Koehler and I collaborated in creating a credenza for the Design Within Reach show and competition. The storage space was designed to hold various objects but we especially liked the idea of the storage for record albums.

Link: koehlerdesignbuild.com

Light: Circular Hanging Lights
Medium: duratrans, plexiglas, fluorescent light

I constructed 5 suspended circular hanging lights for a stage set to be used in Collaboraction Theater's Sketchbook Series at the Steppenwolf Theater. A viewer must move in space and time to see the entire image around the lamps, fostering this movement was a key element in the Etheria exhibition as well.

Link: Collaboraction