From October 10th-30th, 2005 I was an artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Continue reading “Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach (residency)”On November th, 2004, I presented my artist-talk at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI to Petra Kuppers’s Medical Visions/Medical Performances class.
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I contributed Transgenic Conjoined Ganesh/(es) to Spiral, an installation of handmade dolls and figures at Sand Point Magnuson Park (a former military base) in Seattle. The dolls were set on fire on October 22, 2004 to protest the United States’ military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The impetus for Spiral came from monks who self-immolated during the Vietnam War. I wasn’t able to see the final installation, but I imagine it was beautiful and powerful.
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On April 5th, 2001, images of my work from the Undergraduate Exhibition at Gallery 2 in Chicago (one of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago galleries) were featured in the Chicago Journal.
In September 1997, Kathleen O’Shea and I collaborated on The Program, an installation for Hybrid exhibition at Gallery 2 in Chicago. For the installation we created low-tech animatronic stuffed animals who converse with one another about an incident they witnessed. Hybrid was part of the the Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) ’97. Continue reading “The Program, Chicago (installation)”
In the spring of 1997, I created The Silver Room, an installation for Fausto Ferños’ Wig Show, at Gallery 2 in the south loop of Chicago. In this collaboration, I created a silver room-sized environment. Stationed on an alter like a metallic deity, I modeled one of Ferños’ aluminum foil wigs and blew bubbles and lit sparklers over viewers.
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On April 7, 1996, I exhibited Inner Monster for Fresh, a day-long exhibition at N.A.M.E. Gallery. Inner Monster was a stop-motion self portrait with animated mud mask and hair created on a super-8 camera and displayed as a repeating single channel video installation
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In 1996, I was the recipient of the Art of Leadership award at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where I was pursuing my BFA in studio arts. At SAIC, I studied a broad range of art including performance, puppetry, video art, sound art, site-specific installation, photography (analogue and digital), sculpture, drawing, painting, creative writing, and art history, theory, and criticism.
In the Spring of 1995, I was one of the performers who activated Ann Hamilton‘s installation, volumen. volumen was part of the exhibition About Place – Recent Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago. The contemporary art in “About Place” focused on the work of sixteen artists from Canada, Latin America, and the United States for whom the concept of “place” (cultural, social, geographic, or political) was of paramount importance.
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From September 1994-May 1996, I was the recipient of a Merit Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where I was pursuing my undergraduate degree in Studio Art. At SAIC, I studied a broad range of art including performance, puppetry, video art, sound art, site-specific installation, photography (analogue and digital), sculpture, drawing, painting, creative writing, and art history, theory, and criticism.