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You obviously never listened to anything I said
2011 PAINTED CEILING PEDESTAL SCALE MODEL OF A LADDER VELVET GALLERY ROPE This piece is an obvious and humorous homage to one of the keystones in modern art Yoko Ono’s piece “Yes painting” from 1966. By inverting the scale of the ladder and changing the word yes to no and playing on the negative/...
If I knew where I was, I wouldn’t have to ask
2011 DINGHY, ANCHOR, GLITTER BALL, CONSTELLATION LIGHTBOXES This work investigates the human obsession with adventure and our eternal pursuit of that which we perceive to be unexplored. It references the fact that we are each seeking an experience to validate and prove that we are living, that we are indeed alive. We each hope that...
Don’t Let Me Hear You Say Life’s Taking You Nowhere
2011 MDF SHELF AND MOUNTAIN RANGE 6 DVD PLAYERS PLAYING THE GREATEST HIT MOVIES OF RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN (QUIETLY, ON A LOOP) 23′ x 3.5′ x 1′ Just above head height, a shelf lines the wall of a room, with a white-painted facade in the shape of a mountain range. From behind the mountains, a...
Thus Preempting Our Inevitable Failure
2011 MDF, FOAM CORE, POLYURETHANE FILM, LIGHTS DIMENSIONS 40′ x 23′ x 16′H The absorption and assimilation of one edifice into another changes the inherent meaning of a particular space. The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece, Athenian democracy and one of the world’s greatest cultural monuments. This installation...
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2011 GOLD VINYL LETTERING 45′ WIDE Gold vinyl lettering spans 45 feet across the atrium wall at the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, Minnesota. Boldly stating “If you can’t make it right make it big”, the text is self-referential, commenting on it’s own scale. It also references the institution, the notion of artwork within...
Rest assured, nothing is going to happen today
2011 CARBON DIMENSIONS VARIABLE This piece questions our never-ending quest for answers to the unanswerable. As a bottomless well, the black hole speaks to our fascination with the concept of nothingness, our embedded fear of complete solitude and ultimately our own mortality. [Exhibited here with You never told me it was going to be like...
We were living in different places (And not just metaphorically)
2011 4 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION DURATION APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR , LOOPED FOOTAGE WITH THANKS TO FRANCESCA CAVILIA, LAUREN DRASLER, SARA KANTOR, ELIZABETH CHARLOTTE KERSTEIN CINEMATOGRAPHY BY KEVIN PONTUTI It is universally acknowledged that a happy life is a good life, and yet, as a civilization we are becoming increasingly depressed, stressed and removed...
