I am excited to announce my first collaboration with there-there. It is a bronze sculptural work modeled on an actual lock that was snuck out of the Guantanamo Bay's high security area after being burnt off a cell. 

Here's the news on the print!

Over the past year, I've been taking antique rugs, with provenances extending to the 1800s and giving them new lives within the context of current day Los Angeles. Each work was painted in my studio and then exposed to the elements of Los Angeles environment. They were in the Pacific in Malibu, the LA river in Vernon, a strip club in Downtown and the bottom of a Hollywood Hills pool, to name a few....

The body of work and photography of the pieces in situ recently opened at LA><ART and is followed by an exhibition of the pieces at Woven Accents in West Hollywood, CA. The entire collection of rugs and photographic studies will be accompanied by a monograph published by Woven Accents.

Here are the works, in their environments, on their own and installed at LA><ART. 

I'm very excited to announce that the first exhibition of the works from my sea journey is now open to the public at MAMA Gallery in Los Angeles. You'll find some installation images and a nice description of the works.

Here are a selection of the polaroids from my journey across the Pacific on a shipping vessel. Enjoy! 

I created a series of unique sea journey-related book pieces for LA><ART. My intention was to predict the future, address the breadth of the Ocean and the confinement of the ship, and find hints in the text as to where humankind is going.

Cole Sternberg’s “behind the clouds the fireworks became less of a distraction,” could stand alone as poetry, but it’s the title of a single panel in his exhibition, A Moment Near The Sea. In “behind the clouds…”, he applies mixed material onto wood, the series imbuing a dissociative effect, an ineffable amnesia of events perceived without having been sensed.

In 2010, the Ruhr Valley was named the European Capital of Culture, hence the region put on an in-depth series of public programming in all fields of the arts. One of these was Hochhaus Hansa, a former coal refinery turned Museum. With the support of ArtLab21, I presented a body of large works dwarfed amongst the massive machinery.

It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

Couldn't resist posting one of may favorite works from the summer. These images were supposed to be identical, yet for some unexplainable reason, when printed, the left piece contained a mark reminiscent of a bird. I enjoyed the reference and the play on a view from the left or right. It is entitled 'the right is still missing the bird' interpret that to your heart's desire.

A few years back I presented 54 works in an exhibition entitled 'and those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those would could not here the music' at the American University Museum.

This house is strange. It sits as an eye sore to its mansion friends. The pool has dreams of the splash from the board and is jealous of the beats blasting from the gazebo across the way. There was adventure here once. ‘a moment near the sea’ is about exploration, the environment, humankind and its possible demise. It is about Bas Jan Ader, Emilia Earhart, the rising seas, the stormy skies and an amorphous journey. It feels right installed in this home’s current existence; the last vestige of another era, soon to be burned to the ground.

Outside the Lines, Too, the followup to the New York Times Bestseller Outside the Lines has just been released curated by Souris Hong by Penguin Books. The coloring book features illustrations from a wide variety of artists, illustrators and designers, including a drawing of mine with a bit of advice for those kiddos out there anxious to ditch school and color away. Click here for more information on the book and to order your copy.

Is there such a thing as an organic hooker? Or is that the cash you pay a hooker? Aren’t we all equally organic? Are these real thoughts or has wandering the forest driven me mad? How many questions in a row are appropriate? Shit, there’s another…

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