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!

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.

CUSTOM WEDDING ALBUM FOR T + K

TERESA KABIR 09 / 09 / 09 | Make Your Own Book

Wedding in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Photography and Album by Jennifer Liseo

GUMBY LOVE

This is a custom illustration that documents a special moment, when GUMBY enters the room during the wedding reception.

TRIPTYCH

Here are three custom screenprints that colorfully document a wedding day. They are all printed on Rives BFK gray paper and are 9x9 inches in size.

CUSTOM SILKSCREENED CARDS

This is an edition of 70 hand silkscreened THANK YOU cards custom made with a half tone photographic image printed in black ink.

KEYWAY

This is a new solar plate etching and chine colle of a couple on their wedding day. It is inspired by a portrait I took digitally of them in the wine cellar bar area before making their reception debut. The picture was taken through the large gated door keyhole. The overall print is 14 x 9.5 and the etching itself is 4.5 x 3. I like the intimacy and the vintage quality of this print. It's something that you have to walk up to, and peer into to see what's going on. A small treasure of a moment.

BALANCE

This is another print that documents a specific occasion and moment(s) in time. In this case, it is a wedding celebration. It is an archival digital print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper layered with two Solar Plate Etchings printed with bone black oil based ink. The color prints are photographs that were taken while driving over the bridge to St. Simon's Island in Georgia where the couple married. The Solar Plate Etching is inspired by photographic images of the couples first dance. The symbolism here is about the balance in a relationship : structure, support, and logic .vs. intuition, freedom and mystery.

Note: the two middle photographs are of the etched polymer plate.

GESTURES OF LOVE

This print is a customized wedding gift.  It is a two color water-based silkscreen printed on 100% cotton paper.  The print is approximately 28x28 in diameter.  The project entailed photographing everyone's hand at the wedding as I asked each person to make their own gesture of love.  All of the hands were individually edited in photoshop, with varying detail, to create the graphics.  The hands overlapping each other in a circle symbolize unity and life itself. 

The lace-like translucent gold that slightly overlays the inner wreath was inspired by images I've seen of a microscopic orchid root, and was hand painted on mylar to create a film for the screen. The orchid historically symbolizing strength, transformation, love and beauty. 

This is my favorite customized project to date, and I hope to continue experimenting with different custom hand projects.

SILKSCREEN / GLASS PROJECT

These are photos of the interior of the John Dory restaurant in the meatpacking district of NYC.  I collaborated with Michael Davis (Michael Davis Stained Glass) on the glowing 40 ft. stained glass ceiling panels and floor strip you see. My contribution was creating the fish graphics, making the screens and screenprinting the images onto the hand blown glass panels.

BETTY'S GOT A GUN

This is a four color silkscreen I did on 100% cotton Rives BFK paper.  It was inspired by a 4x6 b&w photograph taken in the 1940's of my girlfriend's grandma Betty.  The print is approximately 24x36.  This is the first print in a series I want to create of women who defied the socially constructed expectations of being, during which they were alive.