Photo 2007 courtesy of Alan Bamberger, Artbusiness.com
At the Moment of the Green Flash2009-Present
For now, these are plans for small paintings examining specific sites and situations at the exact moment of their subjective dissolution. (See “The Black Window”) This project will follow a narrative through the four distinct worlds of humanity; the forest, the farm, the home, and the office. A more detailed description of the project is also in the works.
The Black Window
2007-Present.
Using printmaking, drawing, painting, and simple collage techniques to assemble flattened chunks of mass cultural convergence. In the large scale drawings, various images of apparently useless, obsolete, or abandoned objects are woven together with tangled and viral masses of homogeneity, short-circuiting the representational function of any particular picture by building a rat’s nest of bleak, nonsensical context. The smaller pieces examine a similar theme but begin with photographic images and pay sharper attention to their specific despondent contextualization. The work as a whole considers the notion of flatness as physically impossible, but culturally inevitable.
Discarded Stock
2007-Present
Photographic attempts to fabricate and force an aesthetic upon unexciting utilitarian objects and rural decay. These photographs were originally taken for source imagery, but have been set aside to instead constitute this separate, ongoing project.
Printmaking
2000-2007 A sampling of prints of various techniques, completed between my first semester of college and my final year of graduate school.
Student Work
Examples of work created by some of my students in visual arts classes. (COMING SOON)
This site is under construction, and was last updated on 4/29/2009. It has been published for testing purposes. Please feel free to look around, and return soon for the complete site. Thank you. -Tom