Laid Down & Wiped Slowly Away

sumi ink on porcelain coated steel

48 x 96 in.

This site-specific painting in the project room at david b. smith gallery was wiped away in segments daily throughout the course of the exhibition.

Installed at David b. smith gallery

Small Worlds: Toledo Museum of Art- Toledo, oh

A two story installation, (Take it with you - Toledo) was built on the Canaday Gallery Bridge at the Toledo Museum of Art. The installation was designed to be the entryway to the Small Worlds exhibit.

Discarded shipping crates, packing foam, paper cut outs of trees from paintings in the collection, 7 dioramas built into the crates, organic matter from the museum grounds, gravel from the Maumee River bank, gravel from the parking lots of Toledo and water from the Maumee River.

Installed in the gallery

Otherworldly: optical delusions and small realities- Museum of arts and design - new york, ny

An installation at the Museum of Arts and Design for Otherworldly. I painted a large traditional landscape that flows onto the floor and toward a fifth-floor window overlooking central park. The work consists of several dioramas that are built from materials that were collected on walks as well as several paper casts from boulders in Central Park.

Installed in the gallery

installing in the gallery

production in MAD Open studios

Take it with you - Habitat - foothills art center - Golden, co

An installation consisting of all the packing materials used to ship work to "Habitat" a group exhibit at the foothills Art Center in Golden, Co.

dioramas were created inside some of the boxes. Gallery viewers could take photos of the scenes through pin holes with their cell phones.

Take it with you - imPULSE - Pulse art fair - Miami, Fl

An installation consisting of all the packing materials used to ship work to Impulse at the PULSE Art Fair Miami, FL.

Dioramas were created inside some of the boxes. Gallery viewers could take photos of the scenes through pin holes with their cell phones.

Real, Natural and Unsustainable - joseph Gross Gallery @ the University of Arizona Tucson

Acrylic, craft paper, eurocast, fertilizer, found plastic, garbage from Tucson, lichen, moss, organic material from Tucson, Palm Tree, Plastic bucket, soil from tucson, sponge, string, tumble weed, water, wood lumber.

Giving it back - David B. Smith Gallery - Denver, CO

Fabricated Acrylic

Giving it back is a subtle and symbolic gesture; One that simultaneously takes one cubic foot of space away from the David B. Smith Gallery (giving a foot back to the public sphere) and also addresses the tension that exists within the minds and hearts of those who live in the modern world and are afraid of their impact on the land.

Because there's a there, Here is just fine - The Nature of Things - Biennial of the americas 2010 - Denver, CO

Acrylic, cedar, cigarette butts, eurocast, fertilizer, foam, found plastic, garbage from Denver parks, insulation, lichen, moss, organic material from Denver, sponge, steel 55 gallon drum, wood lumber.

Capture #13

David B. SMith Gallery Installation

Acrylic, cedar, cigarette butts, eurocast, foam, found plastic, galvanized steel guardrail, goldenrod, hair, hydrangea, lichen, moss, organic material from river bed of Clear Creek Canyon, pea gravel, sedum, sponge, steel 55 gallon drum, treated lumber.

Protected Landscapes - MFA show - Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Acrylic, bubble wrap, Organic matter, Paper, pen, pencil, PETG, Wax

Tears

Limited Addiction Gallery Installation

Acrylic, box fans, bubble wrap, Organic matter, Paper, pen, pencil, PETG, Wax

landscape Memory repository

Mid Program Review MCAD