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As an artist, I have been focused on expression and the translation of ideas through the visual language. I have maintained an interdisciplinary attitude towards my work and have given myself license to use whatever means necessary to relate my ideas. This interdisciplinary approach allows me to access a variety of media and use a diverse and eclectic vocabulary in the creation of my work. I consider myself a kind of modern archaeologist and the creative process is an opportunity for me to study culture. I find, appropriate, and rescue elements of our modern society out of garbage piles, vacant lots, junk yards, thrift stores, novelty stores, old books, archives, etc...and utilize these details to comment on my own surroundings. Each item has an inherent or attached value as well as a visual potential all its own and I consider everything I collect for its intellectual and aesthetic possibilities. I am fascinated by the relationship between emotion and intellect and enjoy combining and recombining recognizable materials and images into new and unexpected relationships. Playing with the association between the visual and intellectual aspects of cultural materials stimulates ideas, memories and concepts within my own mind. When I create images or objects or spaces or actions, it is as if I am creating a story based of the meanings, values, and aesthetics of the elements I use. I like using materials in this manner because I feel that they can relate insights into our culture or society that cannot be expressed through verbal or written languages. The creative process allows me to bring my personality into the commentaries that I create and lets me to make the work more personal. Through the materials and images, I exercise my own sense of curiosity and create stories that are designed to illustrate my own reflections of time and place. In this manner, I can narrate, satirize, question, and comment on aspects of my own physical and psychological environment. By manipulating contents and contexts, I make each piece an abstraction of things we know, see, and understand as a society and tell of our contemporary culture through my own search for meaning. In history, materials and images can tell us more about culture because they can survive through time. In fact, materials, objects and images can often become more representative of society or culture than any other facet because of their ability to survive. As an artist, it is my hope that the viewer will be able to connect with each piece because they recognize an element or elements and become drawn into the work as a result of that recognition. Once involved with a piece the viewer can begin to decipher some of the latent meanings and begin to interact with the work based on their own reactions. Reference to the video installation Forget: "...I was particularly taken by a video installation over at The Studio, which was conceived after the artist's mother began to suffer from dementia and the artist moved her into his home. It charts the process of her mental deterioration, while more generally inviting us to pause and reflect on memory and forgetting." Benjamin Genocchio, New York Times Other work my be viewed by going to the artist's website at |
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| Education: 1993 1988-90 1988 1985 Selected Exhibitions: 2005-2006 Winter Solstice IV The Studio/The Arts Exchange Armonk/White Plains NY Curator: Tedd Stratis Performance by Kaz McCue: Shut Up 2005 The Modern Landscape Springfield Art Association Springfield IL 2005 61st Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition Swope Art Museum Terre Haute IN Juror: Susan Rosenberg, Asst. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Seattle Art Museum WA 2005 30th Bradley International Print and Drawing Biennial Peoria Art Guild Peoria IL Juror: Judy Collischan, Independent Curator, Writer 2004 Off the Wall: Rethinking the Print New Art Center Newtonville MA 2004 Gritty Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery Brooklyn NY 2004 Tongue in Chic: 2 Perspectives Gallery 305 Illinois Central College Peoria IL 2004 Solo Exhibition: Freaks of Nature Turman Art Gallery Indiana State University Terre Haute IN 2004 4th Minnesota National Print Biennial Katherine E. Nash Gallery University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN Jurors, Siri Enberg, Walker Art Center/ Marjorie Devon, Tamarind Institute/ John Scott, Xavier University 2000-2002 Extraordinary Things: A Study of Contemporary Art through Material Culture (traveling exhibition): Harman Center Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN The University Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT 1999 Solo Exhibition:Goobers & Raisinets New Space Gallery Manchester Community-Technical College Manchester CT 1994-1995 Portraits in Words and Images (traveling exhibition): Harper Collins Gallery New York NY Keele University, Staffordshire, England Norrkopling Konst Forum, Norrkopling, Sweden Honolulu Printmaking Workshop, Honolulu HA Pratt Institute of fine Arts Center Brooklyn NY 1993 In Small Things Forgotten C.W. Post Fine Arts Center Long Island University Brookville NY Awards: 2005 Dr. Harriet McNeal Award of Distinction 61st Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition Swope Art Museum Terre Haute IN 2005 Rick and Candy Shagley Purchase Award Swope Art Museum Terre Haute IN 2005 Award of Honorable Mention in Printmaking The 30th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition Bradley University Peoria IL Awarded by noted author
and curator Judy Collischan, Ph.D. 1993 Award of Artistic Merit Quietude Garden Gallery East Brunswick NJ 1988 Fourth Place- Black & White Photography Photographer's Forum Eighth Annual College Photography Contest Santa Barbara CA 1984 State Honorable Meniton in Art & National Award of Excellence in Art Phi Theta Kappa Florida State Convention, FL Phi Theta Kappa National Convention, Washington, D.C. Collections: Bridgeport Sculpture Park City of Bridgeport MA Burlington County College Sculpture Garden Pemberton NJ University of Bridgeport Permanent Collection Bridgeport CT Manhattan Graphics 1994 Artists' Portfolio Project New York NY C.S. Post Public Art Collection Brookville NY Long Island Arts Council Permanent Collection, Freeport Memorial Library Freeport NY
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