Check out my upcoming exhibition at Don’t Toss It in Lambertville, NJ. My work will be on display from Jan 7 – March 29, 2015. The opening reception is Friday, January 23 from 6 – 8pm. Hope to see you there!
Nothing Goes to Waste
Murals in Trenton!
In Professor Gregory Thielker’s Advanced Painting class, we have spent the last month creating four 10-foot murals for the side of the ARTWORKS Visual Arts Center in downtown Trenton, NJ. Bringing these large-scale paintings into existence meant engaging in activities absent from traditional painting classes but integral to the creation of public art, like meeting with members of the local […]
The Collector
Living Drawings
Whitney Biennial 2014
This year’s Whitney Biennial featured many works of Conceptual art, which, though not my favorite flavor, I nonetheless found intriguing. I briefly tagged along with a tour group, and I got the feeling that each piece in the exhibition was imbued with multiple layers of meaning which could be peeled back as one researched the artist and his / her […]
Clockwise Pastels
Lotte Reiniger
German filmmaker and animator Lotte Reiniger made over 40 films in her career, predating Walt Disney’s animations by a decade. She is famous for her Adventures of Prince Achmed, an alternate take on the story of Aladdin. Her films are essentially grayscale animations on a solid-colored background. Silhouetted shapes move whimsically across the screen and interact deftly with one another. […]
This American Life, Notes on Camp
What I find enticing about Notes on Camp is the use of a variety of different overlapping sounds and sonic textures to create a unified whole. The artist uses narration, ambient noise, quotations from the campers, songs, announcements over the loudspeaker, and other such “camp sounds” to weave a tapestry of the entire experience. This technique makes the documentation more […]