Balotelli

Balotelli, 2011. Digital Vector Art. Illustrator CS2.

A sketch of Mario Balotelli, everyone's favorite Italian bad boy who plays for Manchester City. A quote that was said about him, "He is perfectly balanced - a chip on both shoulders."

American House Now!

American House Now! #1, 2011. 12" x 12" x 10". Cardboard, acrylic, pencil, oil pastel, pen, and cloth.

Made with very rudimentary, refuse type items this Rauschenberg invented Combine of painting and sculpture depicts a house covered by a sheet of cloth. This can conjure images of anything from a death shroud, blanket, snow, hobo's make-shift domicile or a child's ghost costume for Halloween. The act of covering the basic architectural model, made in a style similar to a child's scrawled drawing of a house, suggests I am putting it to sleep. This is a continuation of a running theme I have in my work of protecting items. By burying it or covering it with a sheet it is akin to placing it under the ground or tucking it into bed. It's safe now and monsters of the world can no longer assail it.

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International (family history)

International (family history), 2011. 18" x 24". Pencil on paper.

Series -- Lost in a Forest

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This series is titled after a song called 'A Forest' by the Cure. The other titles of the paintings come from lines in John Keat's poems 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Addressed to Haydon'. The work's focus is on being lost in life without direction and still being able to find the beauty therein. At times it is scary and tumultuous, this disorienting sojourn we walk through our existence, hopefully it ends well. I have seemed to experienced a fullness and privation in my short life and as I cling to art to hide from the loss of a life that might have been in architecture, art has liberated that shackled architect buried deep inside Elysian fields and my being.

Through Verdurous Glooms

Through Verdurous Glooms, 2011. 15" x 20". Acrylic, oil stick, pencil on cardboard.

In Pathless Wood

In Pathless Wood, 2011. 15" x 20". Acrylic, oil stick, pencil on cardboard.

One Sandal

One Sandal, 2011. 18" x 10" x 9". Acrylic, oil stick, pencil, cardboard, cloth, glue and newspaper.

This sculpture is the lost sandal of Jason. It was written that a man wearing a single sandal would overthrow the false king Pelias from Iolcus. Pelias had usurped the throne from Jason's father Aeson and Jason returned to Iolcus to legitimize his rightful place with the crown. In his return Jason came upon a haggard old crone sitting by a river. The old woman asked the youth to take her up on his back and bare her across. Very nearly Jason ignored her but some words of advice from his tutor, Chiron the centaur came back to him and he helped the woman across the fast moving body of water. This wretched woman then transformed into a towering beautiful goddess, it was Hera and she blessed Jason in his journey.

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Taipei Art Museum Competition

New Taipei City Museum of Art Competition, 2011. Work done for As One Architecture.

I had a very meager role in helping As One Architecture put this project together and get it off for an international competition. The web-site for the comp can be seen -here-. And the Boulder, Colorado based firm of As One Architecture can be visited from this -link-. My involvement in the museum consisted of the CAD drawn floor plans. I used a new program I had never used before called DraftSight which is very much like autoCAD from Autodesk, but it is FREE! I also did the small lines on the diagrams in Illustrator.

Portrait of the Artist as Jason

Portrait of the Artist as Jason, 2011. 16" x 25". Acrylic, oil stick, pencil, wax on wood planks.

This painting is another in an artistic cycle inspired by the Jason and the Argonauts mythology of ancient Greece that I have been preoccupied with. In the story Jason goes off in search of the Golden Fleece, the fabled pelt from a flying ram, to legitimize his rightful place on his father's usurped throne. There are links between Jason and I in my trying to legitimize my place in the art world. We both have embarked on a quest to substantiate a life we feel can be ours. In the portrait Jason seems to peer off into the nebulous distance from his ship, Argo, trying to ascertain his future.

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