Impossible folds project - a series I started a couple of years ago, that I am picking up again. More to come!
“Illuminate”
Original silk screen print used for album cover for Hospital Garden.
My artwork + awesome music!
One of my best friend’s band, Hospital Garden, commissioned me to make another album cover for them! This is my second piece of artwork on vinyl… couldn’t be more psyched about it! You can pre-order and stream the album starting March 21st!
There is also of course a story behind this print: In 2003, I was visiting my cousin in northeastern British Columbia. One night, I had a dream in which I was told to go to the top of a skyscraper… there was something up there for me. I get to the top floor, the lights are off. I look up, to find an illuminated cube, floating, mid-air. It started floating down towards me, so I raised my hands in order to catch it. I became completely captivated by this pure and bright light. As soon as it settled in my hands in front of me, I was told that I would find out later what it meant. End dream.
There were two dreams following that were similar, however different shapes of light. These three dreams, being the most vivid dreams I have ever had, have since overwhelmed my being with mystique and what felt like pure joy. There has since, always, been a yearning to find that again, this year being paramount for me.
Flash forward ten years, almost exactly. It is amazing to think about all that I have done and how I have grown in a decade.
Secret Codes, Human Error
An installation inspired by Vosges chocolate trays. Since May, this installation has found its place on walls at three different venues. Most recently, at Anchor & Eve, a vintage clothing, furniture, and skate shop turned gallery and music venue on Lake and Desplaines.
If you are interested in my thought process behind this piece, here goes…
I tend to want to cover entire walls or rooms full of things, and to be more specific, objects that I have collected in masses that once held something. When I put them up on the wall, they became something completely different than what I had personally experienced while creating the piece. Hundreds of trays lined the wall, each paint dot next to each other, different in shape and color. The trays became an audience, a population. As time passed, trays began to fall. This created a landscape, a city scape, full of people. But really, this piece is about what happened… the in between. I am very interested in imperfections and in seeing my art change over time, through a variety of circumstances. I strive to explore what happens between the viewer and the actual piece of art; how our environment and things unseen, can affect change. In many cases the outcome comes as a surprise. In this particular installation at Anchor & Eve, the trays were affected by the vibrations of sound.
Inside
Paw Paw leaves….
Installation at Hauser Gallery for the More is More Group Show curated by Claire Molek
See Through You
Acrylic and Paint Marker on Canvas
Connect
Acrylic and Paint Marker on folded Rives BFK
From the Bottom, Things are Looking Up
Acrylic and Paint Marker on Canvas
Between
Oil, Acrylic, and Paint Marker on Canvas
Beginnings, Life
Hand sewn artist book, pencil on vellum drawings
Book of Lamentations
Silkscreen and Monotype Print with Soft Pastels on Rives BFK
Dripper
Oil, Acrylic, and Paint Marker on Canvas
