Recent Optical Works
The first half of 2011 has seen several new projects in Optical Installation, ranging from Untitled Square, a small work in a group show in Denver, to A View to the West, at the Fort Collins Museum of Art, to the recently completed Eastern Wall in the historic Loveland Feed & Grain building, a 19th century flour mill and grain elevator in Loveland, Colorado.
Light Drift Rotunda
Light Drift, a show at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in 2010, included a large optical installation in the Rotunda, a former sun-room that was part of the JCRS Sanatorium.
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP
Optical installation projects undertaken during an Artist-In-Residence fellowship at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vermont, July and August 2010.
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Echo Pool
Echo Pool is an interactive video work that mirrors viewers in a rippling illusion of water.
Mount Hope Meadow
Mount Hope Meadow was installed in Williamstown, Massachusetts in spring, 2009. A field and woods arrayed on the ceiling of a stone carriage barn.
Orbis Obscurus
A series of video-based objects. Imagery appears abstract and mysterious form; Mirrors allow for another viewpoint resolving it into a realized legible form.
The Childress House
This optical installation took place during a residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming in November 2007.
SIxteen Windows
Sixteen Windows, the first major optical installation, transformed a 19th century New England meeting house by illuminating its ceiling with 16 projections of the sky and neighboring buildings.
Mars
The project Photographs Showing Landscape, Geological, and Other Features of Portions of the Planet Mars is group of silver-gelatin photographs from a 19th century surveying expedition to Mars. It is the result of a collaborative technical and historical reseach project conducted with students at Reed College.
Eden
A body of photographic work exploring vernacular hunting snapshots and their social and aesthetic content. Silver, Lambda, and Inkjet prints exploring documentary, collage, re-photography, and visual play within the tabletop microcosm.
Panavisions
The Panavisions are a series of large-format digital prints mining the mythic cinematic narratives of the Western and their cultural archaeology. The prints are digital collages in the wide Cinemascope format that play with imagery borrowed from Spaghetti Westerns, Arabic language manuals, grammar texts, and Renaissance prints.
Dust
Made concurrently with the Panavisions, these photographic works explore similar themes of ambiguous landscape, narrative, and moral overtone.
Photographs: Anamorphism
A selection of photographs loosely categorized around the shared feature of anamorphic distortion. These studio compositions involve visual interaction between the conventional three-dimensional world and an uncanny and sometimes conflicting visual element from another representational regime.
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Photographs: Still Life, Vanitas, Memento Mori
These images are concerned with conceptual themes of traditional still life. Tabletop compositions populated by discrete objects, be they curiosities or delectables, are intruded upon by the human form in various ways, or augmented by painted, printed, or drawn elements which, though phyically part of the scene, have a collage-like effect.
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