This is my latest piece in the Blue Collar Intelligentsia series. It's a tribute to the Iron Workers that dismantled and rebuilt ground zero after the attacks on 9/11/01. A lot is said about the Firemen and Police officers (and rightly so), but not much is dedicated to the workers whose job is was not only to clean up the devastation of that day, but to rebuild our hopes and pride and show case the American Spirit.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
911 Tribute to Blue Collar
This is my latest piece in the Blue Collar Intelligentsia series. It's a tribute to the Iron Workers that dismantled and rebuilt ground zero after the attacks on 9/11/01. A lot is said about the Firemen and Police officers (and rightly so), but not much is dedicated to the workers whose job is was not only to clean up the devastation of that day, but to rebuild our hopes and pride and show case the American Spirit.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Blue Collar Intelligentsia
The piece, entitled "Tribute to Ken Nordine", uses paint cans as a metaphor for the emotions and personalities of color and is made interactive through the use of QR codes as a link to video media and discussions about the work.
Monday, July 18, 2011
All Sculpture Show
Getting my piece, "Blue Collar Intelligentsia", ready for the Chain Letter show at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery. http://shoshanawayne.com/upcoming-exhibition.php?id=236372&name=Chain_Letter#
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Art Salon
Reillyworks is putting on a the first of what will be a bi-monthly art salon. For this Salon, we have gathered together a group of artists, academics, and creative business professionals to get a dialog going about how media and the easy access to it, has and will change our perceptions of "Art".
Sunday, January 2, 2011
New Work
I have been slightly disappointed lately in my work. Not so much the quality of the pieces, but how they are (or are not) moving. I continually receive high praise from critics and gallery owners as well as viewers, but the work is simply not selling. This may be due to the poor economy or the fact that it's sculpture and people don't know what to do with it, or maybe it's just me. So I am diverging from my previous paths of MCM based work and trying something a little different.
I experimented with a combination of Sculpture and New Media earlier this year in an attempt to marry the two. Using bar codes attached to sculptures, I tried to create real world hyperlinks that people could interact with on their smart phones. Although largely unsuccessful, the idea was not without merit. It is this idea of bridging the "real" and "online" worlds that has led me to working with QR codes.
QR codes are simple matrix bar codes designed to be read vertically as well as horizontally. This allows a greater amount of information to be stored, like a full http website address. My goal is to not simply attach QR codes to sculptures but to make the sculptures QR codes themselves. These sculptures will be links to media content pertinent to either the location or the purchaser of the sculpture. Links can be anything from a personal or corporate website to links to new media video art or a simple text message. I'm trying to create these works in three dimensions so that they appear not only as flat, scanable, images from a single angle but as city-scapes or mineral forms viewed from many angles. In small form these sculptures can be hung on the wall (an area that allows for greater placement in homes for sculpture) or in large form, can become seating and gathering points for corporate buildings or apartment complexes.
I am hoping that this new work will be better accepted by audiences and the fact that it's almost exclusively customized to the owner might be more of an attraction for buyers.
I experimented with a combination of Sculpture and New Media earlier this year in an attempt to marry the two. Using bar codes attached to sculptures, I tried to create real world hyperlinks that people could interact with on their smart phones. Although largely unsuccessful, the idea was not without merit. It is this idea of bridging the "real" and "online" worlds that has led me to working with QR codes.
QR codes are simple matrix bar codes designed to be read vertically as well as horizontally. This allows a greater amount of information to be stored, like a full http website address. My goal is to not simply attach QR codes to sculptures but to make the sculptures QR codes themselves. These sculptures will be links to media content pertinent to either the location or the purchaser of the sculpture. Links can be anything from a personal or corporate website to links to new media video art or a simple text message. I'm trying to create these works in three dimensions so that they appear not only as flat, scanable, images from a single angle but as city-scapes or mineral forms viewed from many angles. In small form these sculptures can be hung on the wall (an area that allows for greater placement in homes for sculpture) or in large form, can become seating and gathering points for corporate buildings or apartment complexes.
I am hoping that this new work will be better accepted by audiences and the fact that it's almost exclusively customized to the owner might be more of an attraction for buyers.
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