New American Swords.

dimensions variable
Wood, electronic microphones, cotton, rubber, copper, urethane.

2006

Gone Baby Gone.

28"x26"x26"
Hole cut into floor of the HOUSE prior to destruction, briefly referred to as a possible dancing hazard..

2004

Dead men on running horses searching for Lazarus.

Size: variable
Materials: Wood, rope, electronics, Plexiglas, resin, paint.

(An amplifier and the sound of its un-making) What’s the opposite of Baseball?

Size: variable
Materials: wood, electronics, cotton, polyurethane, rubber, paper.
Year: 2006

The unauthorized biography of Jack Sawhorse, research analyst and head librarian for the Black Wolf Clan. (The Man-High Project era and representing the terrible foreshadowing of his final limbless years.)

Edition of 6 :  2 of 6
Size: variable
Materials: wood, oilseed blackboard paint, plaster,
resin, cotton, acrylics, soil, foam, copper, paper, epoxy and various hardware.
Year: 2006

Title lost (you only get one neon piece, so get it over with early).

28"x26"x15"
Glass, neon, wood, electronics.

2002

Mr. Stardust himself:
Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he has not got much of a bark.
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.
When the show was over, as he walked through the last curtain into the hall, he thought to himself that awful joke his father would tell him, “Ugly girls work harder.”

Materials: wood, paper, found objects, ink, duralar, paint, stainless steel, plasterboard,
masking tape, galvanized metal bucket, plastic, charcoal, distillant, monourethane.
2008

First our garbage will become our fuel, then with all the smoke and fumes and
enough time, our waste will become suns. (Trapping light invites all sorts of
intriguing questions, for instance, if you light a candle in a room lined with perfect mirrors [mirrors that return nearly 95 percent or more of the light that contacts the reflective surface], would the room stay illuminated even after the flame is extinguished.) But first, let?s mine the cemeteries for fresh things to sell.

Materials: wood, paper, found objects, ink, duralar, paint, stainless steel, plasterboard,
masking tape, galvanized metal bucket, plastic, charcoal, distillant, quadraurethane,
electric pump.
2008

Black Lungs: Ever notice how all artists are super-sensitive, temperamental, selfish crybabies, and it only gets worse as they get older and continually more bitter. The long dark tea time of the soul right before death and then your taxes- now, imagine a world with two Elvis?s, twin brother performers. Best to die young and famous. In her hand, a faded Polaroid of her white Corvette totaled beyond repair.

Materials: wood, paper, found objects, ink, duralar, paint, stainless steel, plasterboard,
masking tape, galvanized metal bucket, plastic, resin, charcoal, distillant,
quadraurethane, electric pump.
2008

Battlefield horror from the war of northern aggression, slave rape, abu ghraib
torture, grassy knolls, rich girl bank robberies and “pig” finger-written in blood on mansion walls, slow spiked garrote death, a bucket with all of Friday night?s vomit spilled across every city street collected, restaurant dumpsters, dead drug addicts in the morgue?s walk-in refrigerator, lies between lovers, profitable deception,
death-row lunch trays sitting soiled in a broken industrial dish-washer or a
speeding pickup slamming into a pregnant dog on a backcountry road.

Materials: wood, paper, found objects, ink, duralar, paint, stainless steel, plasterboard,
masking tape, galvanized metal bucket, plastic, charcoal, distillant, quadraurethane,
electric pump.
2008

GETOUTOFHERE! (then) BOOM! Waves of mutilation follow, the truth is set free
all at once, enlightenment for everyone simultaneously, the world de-materializes
becoming speeding light, everyone and everything is everywhere at once. Floating
now, awake in pure information, thoughts can instantly become form, any
psychical thing becomes possible just from thinking it. Mankind becomes gods,
the universe is complete, all matter available for any purpose instantaneously.
And just like with any sitcom, the real humor lies in the set up, waiting patiently
like a hunter who sits motionless as the sun rises over a smoky field of wet grass
mixed with broken pavement.

Materials: wood, paper, found objects, ink, duralar, paint, stainless steel, plasterboard,
masking tape, galvanized metal bucket, plastic, charcoal, distillant, quadraurethane,
electric pump.
2008

I sure could use another planet.

Size: variable
Materials: wood, binding agents, polyurethane, soil, sawdust, foam, ink, electronics, steel.

The experimental black liquor machine (Appalachian version).

Size: 28”x22”x19” (plus wall mounting device, variable)

Materials: Plexiglas, wood, binding agents, electric pump, polyurethane, soil,
sawdust, rubber, foam, ink, fur, steel, construction supplies.
Year: 2007

Dead Ringer (low E is the sound that black makes).

Size: 9 feet by 6 feet by 6 feet (plus wall mounted monitor device, variable)
Materials: Baby grand piano, concrete, earth, steel, copper, surveillance camera,
microphone and monitor.
Year: 2007

Santa Fe, NM

Rejoicing in the rugged, the barren, no less than in the smooth and fertile, while it does contain far more than a few grains of truth-- especially given the current astrological omens, I believe your will to create will be relentless, majestic, and primordial (post apocalypse version).

Size: variable
Materials: Plexiglas, wood, binding agents, electric pump, polyurethane, soil,
sawdust, rubber, foam, ink, fur, steel.
Year: 2007

The hospital of seven teeth. Lakes of Whiskey.

Size: variable
Materials: Glass, cedar, whiskey, rubber, porcelain.
Year: 2006

I got dad issues (so go fuck your river).

Size: 5 feet by 4 feet by 3.5 feet (plus foot pedal device, variable)
Materials: Plexiglas, wood, binding agents, electric motor, polyurethane, soil, sawdust, rubber, foam, ink, fur, steel.
Year: 2007

A baptismal device for the last few survivors (ported black leak version).

28"x26"x15"
(plus wall mounting device, variable)
Plexiglas, wood, binding agents, polyurethane, soil, sawdust, rubber, foam, ink, fur, steel.

2006

Look in the mirror, you can see how little of you is left.

40" x 60"
c-print mounted on plexiglas

2004

Same as the last time, except this time, nobody was listening, and then one terrible night it all ended.

1.5' x.5' x .5' (variable)

wood, oilseed blackboard paint,
resin, cotton, acrylics, soil, foam, copper, paper, epoxy and various hardware.

2004

Same as the last time, except this time, nobody is listening, because of the last time.

14' x 4.5' x 3.5'

12 minute audio loop, stereo equipment, wood, oilseed blackboard paint, concrete, resin, cotton, acrylics, soil, foam, copper, paper, epoxy and various hardware.

2004

'I could tell right away, something had changed alright, it wouldn't be the same again and I will never be like you--you wouldn't even recognize me now (installation study)'

30"x40" cibachrome print

2003

'You’ve stabbed so many times- and all the mysteries and quiet moments you will ever find are safely haunting that dark warm hole (or how you cut my head off)'

wood, cable, cable hoist, cotton, wool, stainless steel, audio electronics, copper and soundtrack
mixed media construction with 33 minute audio loop

2003

'nomad'

installation/costume with video and sound

exit art, nyc

2001

'green screen (humid version)'

installation/media apparatus

(below: video stills)

wooster projects, nyc

2002

'untitled (and it was quiet)'

c-print mounted on aluminum

fredric snitzer gallery, miami

2002

'deathwhale'

mixed media construction with 2 channel video and 4 channel audio

bass museum, miami beach

2002

'untitled (character study from Our American Cousin)'

c-print 35" x 47"

fredric snitzer gallery, miami

2001

'early the next morning'

cibachrome mounted on plexi

fredric snitzer gallery, miami

2001

'tapes'

plaster and paint with chocolate

the house, miami

2002

'the burden of chris'

silent 16mm film transfer

center for contemporary art , atlanta

2002

click here for quicktime version

'100 hundred rounds (glock version)'

cibachrome mounted on board

locust projects, miami

2001

'return of the pilgrim'

mixed media construction video and photo documentation

ringling museum of art, sarasota

2001

'ear, clutch, trigger'

mixed media construction with 2 channel audio

departing perspectives, miami

2000

'drag in brazil'

mixed media costume construction with 2 channel audio and video

platform pledge, sao paulo brazil

2002

'excuse me one moment, (finish bleeding)'

mixed media costume/ looped video

mini cooper show, frederic snitzer gallery, miami

2002

Our American Cousin

wood, cable, cable hoist, cotton, wool, stainless steel, audio electronics, copper and soundtrack
mixed media construction with 33 minute audio loop

2006, Rubel Family Collection

click here for pdf article about this installation

Black Lungs to Blow Smoke in Your Face

wood, ink, pumps, tubing, cable, cable hoist, cotton, wool, stainless steel, audio electronics, copper and soundtrack
mixed media construction with 45 minute audio loop

2006, Fredric Snitzer gallery

click here to see more images from this installation

Same as the last time, except this time, nobody was listening, and then one terrible night it all ended. (uninjured version)

32" x 5" x 4" (doll)

wood, oilseed blackboard paint,
resin, cotton, acrylics, soil, foam, copper, paper, epoxy and various hardware.

2005