Horizon, 2008
In this stand of very vertical trees, I created a horizon line by putting a white band around each tree. Each band was placed so that it would appear as a single line when viewed from a specific vantage point. The bands on the nearest trees were placed at 9', while the bands on the trees in the back were at 20' or so.
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Blimp (working title), 2008, is a single channel video piece (2:27)
In this series of video installations, moving light patterns act as evidence of an unexpected or improbable opening in the room.
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In Doppelgang I, 2007, a tiny window in a basement gallery poses as the source for cast light shapes on the adjoining wall. The project was exhibited at The ISE Cultural Foundation in 2009 as part of the group exhibition, A Conflicted State.
materials: projected video (5' tall), window (5" tall), fan, light, paper leaves, vellum
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Doppelgang II was exhibited at the Elizabeth Foundation Project Space in 2008. In this piece, a room is drawn with tape, and the changing light shape of a window is projected into it.
materials: video projection, tape
Doppelgang III was exhibited at Smack Mellon in 2008. In this piece, light and sound enter the room through a ventilation grate in the gallery wall.
materials: existing vent, light, audio, projected video
Ceci n'est pas une pipe, 2007, is an outdoor sound sculpture. The "decoy" pipes, made from paper mache, mimic the curved pipes that sit on the sidewalk next to buildings, and whose purpose is to provide an escape for gases in the plumbing lines. As people walked by, the pipes emitted belching sounds.
materials: paper mache, cement, plywood, speakers, cd player
Exhibited as part of the Art Under the Bridge Festival, DUMBO, Brooklyn in 2007.
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This is a single channel video piece (1:13), made in 2006. It was inspired by a blue water bed. It was exhibited as part of the exhibition, Signal Channel: Contemporary Video Art at the Bemis Center in 2006, and as part of the Scope Art Fair in 2007.
materials: waterbed,
felt, vinyl, string, video, audio
Flapping, cooing, and bird calls come from various places in the gallery. The bird sounds are not entirely convincing. Perched on a cement beam overhead is a video monitor. The monitor pictures the space directly behind it. Appearing intermittently on the screen are short video clips that reveal the source of the sound: people attempting to make bird calls.
materials: 2 channels of audio (5 speakers), video (1 monitor), drain pipe
Exhibited at Smack Mellon Gallery in 2006
still from video
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materials: projected video, audio, matboard, and foam core
cityscape approximately 7’ x 4’, tallest building 16” tall
Exhibited at the Cue Art Foundation in 2006
view behind ventilation grate to bus stop outside (click to see video documentation)
Daylight and sound filter through a ventilation grate, revealing a passage through the wall and a real time view of the bus stop outside. The passage is the interior of a periscope built behind the gallery wall. The periscope flips the view of the street activity 90 degrees.
The piece was exhibited at the Bronx Museum as part of its AIM 25 Exhibition in 2005.
materials: ventilation grate (20 x 20”), drywall, fiberglass insulation, wires, mirrors, wallpaper, and audio (2 speakers)
Diagram of installation layout:
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Video of smoke is projected so that it seems to come from vents inserted into the walls of the room. In corners of the room where real smoke would be likely to collect, the hard edges have been rounded by filling them with carved foam.
Breathing Room was exhibited at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in 2006, and at Mason Gross Gallery (New Brunswick, NJ) in 2004.
materials: projected video, vents, carved foam, joint compound
layout of vents and rounded corners:
