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“My #1 Fan” is a humorous picture book about fans and their service to humanity. A fan is someone that admires you a lot and is always there for you, just like the various types of mechanical fans that help us keep cool. A play on words, this picture book uses drawings of various types …
This book guides readers through my journey to homeownership, weaving a practical how-to guide into an enticing narrative. My story is a meditation on affordable housing, the student loan crisis, and what happens when a generation can’t afford to invest in their community. Download a sample Purchase: Limited Edition (300): $25Hardcover: $20Paperback: $10eBook: $5 Praise …
These three pieces were installed in Los Angeles, CA, as part of a corporate collection. They consist of fluorescent rope and eye hooks in a cross stitch embroidery pattern. Though the stitch is something mechanical, the forms become also organic due to their symmetry and repetitive or cell-like structure. The blacklight illumination from above gives each …
published on Glasstire Nov 10, 2018 Usually when an artist writes about his or her own work, they’re either explaining, or defending, why they did what they did and how they got there. But with the 2007 book Passing the Torch, by a Houston artist named Bob Fowler, I don’t walk away knowing any more about …
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A couple of weeks ago, there was a book launch event for Pete Gershon’s book Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985 at the Glassell School’s new building in Houston. The book chronicles the Houston art scene during a vital time, and the crowd at the Glassell skewed older, and was primarily made up of artists …
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Photos of ladders on trucks taken while driving around Texas.
VIP is an exhibition about this feeling of awe as a motivator and addresses issues of privilege, ambition, and risk. It is a social commentary on youtube sensationalism, social media fanaticism, and the frantic display of one’s importance to avoid fading into the ether. The central piece in the exhibition is a floor-based, oval-shaped red …
The initial contact a viewer had with the VIP exhibition is through its invitation card. The postcard announcement shows a red background with “I am a very important person” written in white across the center. It’s a personal and private affirmation card for what’s truly important – knowing that you are a very important person. …
A lonesome old-school red phone sitting on a table seems almost comical. A red phone reads as an emergency communication device – a crisis or hotline. “Find your Calling” is a direct line but to the top of the mountain and all you hear is the wind – nature’s static and silence. This object was …
Part of the exhibition “VIP“, these free association doodles provide a child-like meditation on the red carpet track, turning the monumentality of the piece and its associated emotions of ambition, privilege, motivation, and awe upside down by infusing a sense of humor, a release to laugh at ourselves. Perhaps we shouldn’t take ourselves too seriously …
PLAYMATES are felt sculptures, that resemble plush toys, which are based on early personal computer models which implemented the change from a computer being a business-only computing machine to also being an entertainment hub that can be enjoyed by the whole family at home. Each PLAYMATE is handcrafted in an edition of ten. All PLAYMATES …
“I’m interested in exploring ideas of success – how we as a society define it, what it means to achieve it – and how and where ideas of comfort, risk, happiness, and fulfillment fit in along this journey. I wanted to start by giving a little bit of background to the piece, so I’m going …
An installation that was part of the exhibition “Home” at the Till Richter Museum (Buggenhagen, Germany). It used common fencing material found in and around town to cordon off the wall heaters and then repeated the design along the walls in that room using masonry thread and nails. A utilitarian object turned into a decorative …
A series of collages looking at horizon lines and mountain outlines. Most are images cut from magazines adhered to 11 x 17 inch vellum graph paper. Some have fabric or vinyl tablecloth incorporated.
A series of large (5′ x 6′ feet) black chalk drawings (2015/2016) on white felt of 5 of the deadliest mountains to climb in the world. Mountains, a long held symbol for self-help and motivational posters, inspire a sense of awe through their vastness. We feel small and insignificant in their presence. Ambition and bravery, …
Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) and City of Houston Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD) released six new Art Recycling Trucks in 2014 that had been transformed into mobile artworks by local artists in partnership with HAA. “I Have a Positive Impact” is a patchwork quilt of recycled materials left over from previous soft sculpture works. The individual pieces …
Recorded in the Summer of 2013 on the Rice University Campus in Houston, TX. It was first shown and performed as part of Help Yourself, a two-person exhibition with Mark Ponder curated by Rachel Hooper, at the Emergency Room on the Rice University Campus. It was performed again at the Till Richter Museum in Buggenhagen, Germany, …
