SILHOUETTES OF US

It all came together!  This is a photo from the first night of the Dumbo Arts Festival.  I collaborated with video artist Jacob Kader and installation artist Leo Valle on this video installation.  It was an amazing process and we continue to work on the next iteration for 2013.

Silhouettes of Us explores what personal space means in an urban environment.

Projected images allude to voyeuristic glimpses seen around the city, while clothes lines act as transcendental ever-changing canvases that play with light, scale and perception.  The empty tobacco warehouse becomes an intimate space filled with life.

You are welcome to participate by bringing a white garment with you to hang on a clothes line or by walking through to create your own silhouette.  

*I will post installation photos and video soon.

DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL PROPOSAL 2012

Here are a few sketches and computer renderings (by Leonel Valle and myself) that were submitted for the Dumbo Art Festival 2012.  Silhouettes of Us is a site specific video installation that explores what personal space means in an urban environment.  We were encouraged by the festival organizers to go bigger, therefore our original installation idea grew in scale and concept as Jake Kader, Leo Valle and I collaborated.  More info and photos to come soon!

PICO MEANS LITTLE

Here are some photos from a recent shoot for pico jewelry line (picomeanslittle.com).  I had the pleasure of working with Andrea Panico (jewelry designer / owner) and model Larah Moravek (interior designer) in creating a photo series of the jewelry on people.  Visit the website to see more images from both her Little Architecture collection and Frank Lloyd Wright line.

PROCESS SHOTS

Right now I'm in the middle of working on a few projects that are not in the printing phase, but I had a strong desire to physically print - to make marks on paper with a bold ink by way of screenprinting.
So, I did.
I used up some scrap pieces of nice paper and used a screen I had already made (for the tote bags I sell) and made some cards. Here are some process shots for the fun of it!

A LITTLE BIT HUMAN

This is a series of three screenprints entitled, The Human Condition; Condition The Human; and Human: The Condition.

The concept and images explore the absurdities in language and life.

They are printed on 100% cotton Rives BFK paper and are sold as a set. It's an edition of 7.

CUSTOM PHOTO BOOKS

LINDY & MINA CAPE COD 2011 | Make Your Own Book

LIBBY & KLARA CAPE COD 2011 | Make Your Own Book

This was Lindy, Mina, Libby and Klara's first time visiting the ocean, on a family trip to Cape Cod. I documented the fun and created these keepsake photobooks for them.

PUBLISHED BY THE ARTIST

Published By The Artist is a benefit exhibition and sale of self-published editions by a varied host of printers curated by Brad Ewing (Marginal Editions) and Katie Michel (Grenfell Press). All editions are priced at $300 or less with proceeds to be shared equally by the artist and International Print Center of New York.

Above is the postcard design for the show, the two silkscreen prints I'm exhibiting (and sold, yay!) and some snapshots taken from facebook of the opening.

My prints are entitled, Connect 1 and Connect 2. They are 2 color screenprints on Yupo paper (which is an archival paper made of plastic) 20x26". The imagery was inspired by photographs I had taken of the urban street-scape of Redhook, Brooklyn and an experimental process of taping black thread directly to the screen (when exposing the screen) to create the free-form tangled lines.

It is an honor to exhibit among an amazing collective of printmakers.

WORK IN PROGRESS

*It's been a while since I have posted any work, but I've definitely been producing. I will take the next few weeks to post projects I've done in the past year and earlier.

The images above are of a work in progress at the printshop. I've been layering circular images onto a beautiful soft black Hahnemuhle paper that is 33x41" in size. All of the circles have been screen-printed onto the paper in variations of white, gray and silver. All of the imagery was hand painted or drawn on film to create the screens for printing. I will continue layering and playing with different ink opacities. Look out for my post of the finished piece!