Cut + Paste group show at Hang Art Gallery

Upward Trend - 56"x40" - Pigmented Ink and Packaging Tape
on  financial newspapers, mounted on Dibond

I'm happy to announce that I will be exhibiting new works in a group show this July at Hang Art Gallery here in San Francisco.  The show will include two other artists: David King and Anthony May.

Cut + Paste  explores how three different artists use collage in their own unique way.

OutGrow

Artist Statement

In my work, I typically reference relationships between nature and manmade systems such as manufacturing and commerce. I have been using my art as a form of environmentalism, portraying nature as the victim and man as the aggressor.

In this suite of performative prints, the characters are less defined, the storylines, less clear. What could be perceived as nature blooming or prospering, could also be seen as nature outlasting or outgrowing its human surroundings.

In my process, I screenprint an image of nature with green ink onto green construction paper. On top of that layer, a smaller, more delicate form of that image is screenprinted with gray ink on top. In this initial composition, nature is portrayed as meek, humble, or small. Over time, light bleaches away the dye in the construction paper. The result is a shift in the image’s composition; where nature was once a small part of the picture plane, it now expands and dominates. The image changes over time, performing for the repeat viewer. Is this a story of magical realism, in which a tree could emerge out of paper or is this a cautionary tale of a post-humanity environment?

Untitled #3 (OutGrow Series). 

21"x21". Performative Print (Screenprint on Construction Paper mounted on BFK Paper). 

Edition of 10.

Open Studio - Oct. 20-21 11am-6pm

Friday Preview Party. Oct. 19 6-9pm

Every year during October, artists open up their studios to the public.  What I enjoy most about it is the opportunity to talk to people about my work.  To get feedback and perspectives from people who've never seen my work before.  The dialog is always a treat.  This year, it's no different and I look forward to meeting new faces and greeting new minds.  I hope you'll indulge me.

"Lakshmi." 19"x19". Pigmented ink and packaging tape on the Wall Street Journal mounted on panel.  Variable Edition of 8. 

Marin MOCA

I'm happy to be included in the Summer National Juried Exhibition at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. My piece, "Bull Market," will be included in the show. Many thanks to the juror, Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator and Director of Programs & Collections at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.

Note to Self by Chuck Close

Armory Week

With March done and gone, it's about time I posted images from my trip to New York for Armory Week. This is just a snippet.

Open Studio

Every October, artists around town open up their studios to the public in San Francisco. It's an opportunity to allow us cloistered artists, holed up in our studios (and our heads), to let regular people into our creative sanctuaries. The public gets the chance to talk to the artist directly and to see where the artist works.

This year, I'm having my open studio during the second weekend, October 15-16, from 11am-6pm. I hope you can make it. I'll also be having a Friday night preview party, in case you want to beat the crowds and get a first look.

There's already been some interest in my work from the Huffington Post and 7x7 Magazine. Check out the images below: