NEW WORK: UPDATED JULY 27th, 2014
Expedition Everest- Stuck on the Ride. 2014. Acrylic, Wax, Oil on Wood. 62″ x 48″.
It’s a Small World- EVACUATED. 2014. Acrylic on Wood. 62″ x 48″.
Jaws Returns to the Water (animated)
A. LAYER OBSESSION
I. In my studio, I’m working on a layered painting of the now extinct Jaws ride at Universal Orlando. The following are the first 8 iterations, each with a shark cast from matte medium.
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II. One day in Pittsburgh I tried taking a photograph of every flight at the airport and made drawings of each. Here are a few:
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III. Then there was the time I painted 49 animal portraits to memorialize this surreal thing that happened in Ohio where a suicidal menagerie owner released all his exotic animals into the suburbs of Ohio and they all had to be killed. On the one year anniversary of the event I held an event in which I made the portraits into paper lanterns and released them at a gun range. A few of the portraits and photographs follow:
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IV: The next two pieces are both 23 layers deep and embody 3 second chunks of video.
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B. LANDSCAPES: REAL AND NOT REAL YET…
I. The following are from a series I did titled Soldiers as Travelers in which I isolated individual soldiers from historical battles and placed them amongst expressionistic backgrounds.
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II. More populated places below…
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III. Digital Landscapes
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C. AND SOME HUMAN FACES
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