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while we tap our feet or shift our weight
An exhibition with Meridith Ridl at the Holland Area Arts Council open January 13-March 5. The show includes many subtle familiarities and simple profundities. Stop by and see it if you have a chance! My contribution to the exhibition… Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge of Vice Versa, 2011 rubber ball, string, motor Currently, I feel…
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Plenum
Plenum, 2010 site specific installation strings, paper pullstring tips, plastic buckets, water, ceiling tile, sprinkler, motors My installation for Art Prize 2010 in Grand Rapids was at West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology (WMCAT). It consisted of two separate, but related parts–thirty pullstrings extending down through removed drop ceiling tiles and a dripping sprinkler.…
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Looming
Video detail from an installation created during my residency at Ox-Bow in September 2010.
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Notes from the Studio Walls
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Yawn
Over 100 yawns captured in plastic bags.
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Ox-Bow
I’m out at the Ox-Bow Artists’ Residency for two weeks (9/5-9/18). I’ve really enjoyed the space and the air and the ability to clear my head a little bit from a busy post-gradschool summer…in short I feel like I haven’t been able to stop and think until now and it’s a really good thing! It…
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Jeppe Hein
Sometimes it seems like someone makes all the work you’ve ever wanted to. Jeppe Hein’s witty, poetic and sometimes off the wall body of kinetic work has me throwing my hands up in the air and shrugging. I have sketch video’s of dust bunnies being pushed around by air. The screw in the wall is…
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The Press Mentions the 'Dis.place.ment' Show
The Grand Rapids Press wrote up the ‘Dis.place.ment’ show as the UICA looks toward their new placement/location. Click here. RELATED POSTS: displacement at the uica
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On and On
Installed at the Holland Area Arts Council June 3-August 1, 2010. On and On, 2010 strings, motors, pullstring tips
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Valance
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Looking up
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Paired
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dis.place.ment at the UICA
The Displacement Show at the UICA is up through early August! Check out my deflated installation!
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Thesis Show!
It’s open! The current exhibition at MOCAD is our MFA degree show. Check it out!
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Performance Footage
This is a long video, but I finally finished editing the full footage of the performance I did last month.
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My Mythologies
Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies” has been a very influential text for me recently. Often it just takes a small, beautiful moment in a text or lecture or time in my day that triggers the idea for the next piece I make. “Mythologies” is chock-full of these nuggets. Barthes constantly reinvented his theory on what he was…
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Provocative One-Liners Can Work
Art that is only a joke runs itself thin, but the one-liner that opens up into a new bubble of thought that is funny and provocative is intriguing and hard to find. Ceal Floyer does it well in her piece “Today’s Special” (the first part of the video covers this piece and the rest shows…
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pink and pretty?
This piece has transformed itself many times since it’s conception. It was going to be excerpts from “carefree” songs (such as those by Jack Johnson) with a torso-esque figure attached to the wall doing a shoulder dance. For awhile it was going to be powered by a tape player motor. I tried making an armature…