Ice Fishing,
Airport monitors video-loop installation (concept proposal)
 
Site Specific, 2004
Curatorial: artSPACE@16,
Malden, MA
    
Site Specific features a group of artists,
whose works explore the psychological, physical, and cultural notion
of location. The exhibition includes works in various media, including
paintings of politically and historically significant structures, a
series of paintings dealing with the notion of an ideal tourist destination,
and dioramas which recreate location scenes lifted from obscure movies.
Other works include a childishly crafted, life-size shelter which identifies
with vernacular living, and a video-loop exploring the tension of a
potential shifting of political borders. Site Specific's aim is not
only to examine the commonalities and contradictions of our concept
of a place, but also to understand and define our position within the
increasingly global community. (more
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Dealey Plaza, Dallas, TX., 1963, 2002-03
Arcylic on canvas, 24 x24", series of 10
 
This group of paintings retraces John F. Kennedy’s final presidential motorcade ride, starting from Love Field Air Force Base, and ending at Dealey Plaza with his assassination. Using a diagrammatic tourist’s map, the route is abstracted and executed in a series of minimalist paintings. The use of a strictly limited palette in a various shades of red, white and blue references the conflicting theories about JFK’s death and signifies the episode’s continued symbolic power in the national identity. The series is a set of 10 consecutive paintings which begins at the scale of the county and zooms in to the exact street location of the assassination. The clean abstraction of the maps contrasts with the confused and conflicting accounts of the tragedy, and the careful execution of the paintings suggests a carefully executed plan.
Funerary Tents, 2003
Design concept models
Contemplation Garden, 2002
Installation with design concept model
 
Paul Revere's Ride, 2001
Raw canvas, dimensios vary upon installaton
Inkjet on spiral drawing pad
  
This project is composed of a series of canvas dustcovers, hollow
inside, but suspended to suggest the sculptures they could cover. The
project explores the myth of an event, the ride of a patriot, and reveals
the significance of the heroic legend as a means of manufacturing an
identity of courage and victory for a young nation. The empty dustcovers
intimate the distortion and inaccuracy of Longfellow's famous poem.
They become protective casings for an embellished reality, defining
and guarding nonexistent statues. This piece is accompanied by a bound
collection of photographs taken along Paul Revere's route in its contemporary
state.
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