Untitled, Hits with Bibles
Carbon, Bibles and Silk over Panel
2013
Hits with Bricks, and Hits with Bibles were made simultaneously. I burnished bricks with industrial carbon/smog and threw them into raw silk to form the composition. The brick became a metaphor for when language is no longer useful during political discourse such as an overthrow or riot (this was during Arab Spring).
Hits with Brick and Hits with Bibles
Installation View, Roberts Projects
2014
Field Without Color
Bone Char and Graphite on Panel, bound in Silk
41”x53”
2015
MCA Chicago
Decor en Carbon:The Fifth Column
Installation
2014
This installation is primarily a series of paintings that were titled Field without Color. The works were made from layers of carbon in the forms of Graphite, Bone Char, and Smog burnished onto panel, and bound in translucent black silk. They were installed in a ground floor Chelsea gallery space surrounded by tropical palms which had no natural light source, and whose bases and soil were bound in black silk. The trees died throughout the course of the exhibition, and the works began to lightly shed their skin/pigment into the silk that they were bound by.
BE OBLIVION, in disconnect
2011
Warm White Neon, Pallets, Paint, Cardboard boxes
Dimensions Variable
BE OBLIVION was constructed with warm white neon letters which were then placed into boxes and onto white washed shipping pallets. This work were sold with an agreement that the collector would have to decide whether to leave the artist’s intervention, or to install it onto a wall, at which point they could not place it back into its original form.
Song Number 4
Bone Char, Earth Pigments, Carbon and Resin on Panel
49” x 91”
2019
Erasing the Music
Erased Sound on Glass Panel
Field Without Color in Disassembly
2014
Resin, Carbon, Bone Char on Silk torn from Panel
Untitled, Hits with Bibles
Carbon, Bibles and Silk over Panel
2013
While I was producing the Hits with Bricks works, Occupy protesters in San Francisco (where I was working) had an altercation with Police where they threw bricks from windows of an abandoned hotel, and also bibles that had been left behind. I then gathered discarded bibles and burnished them in the same carbon, producing sister works, Hits with Bibles. The objects become emptied out of their meaning, producing a new context, subject and form.
