News
November 2021
Fast Slow Disco
FoyerLA has included two of my new photographs in their latest group show, opening Sunday November 14, 2021.
July 2021
Return of the Dragons
September 2019
FoyerLA presents my latest solo exhibition, Berlin Zoo, 1988. Taken as series of Kodachrome travel shots in my earliest working years, “Berlin Zoo, 1988,” 2017 registers the failures of colonial era collecting and categorization. The images of animals in their false habitats captures the melancholic conditions of confinement, and in turn, reverberate outward to a city that itself was caged for almost three decades.
As we near the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, these images have been retrieved from the archive to be re-contextualized and exhibited – a reflection for both the artist and ourselves. The failures of centuries of a conquering vision of nature have now resulted in an ongoing sixth mass extinction, and the lessons of a liberated Berlin seem long gone, as cages and walls echo through our contemporary American life.
This exhibition consists of twelve of fifteen from the series, printed analog as Cibrachome (IlfoChrome) reversal prints in 2016. This process, itself a lost art, has been supplanted by digital techniques and will soon cease to exist.
Also included in the exhibition is "Navy Trunk," 2017, a handmade duplication of a Korean War-era Navy trunk, which were built upon ships and used to send home personal effects. Again alluding to cold war art and geo-politics, the sculpture is another study of confinement and memory.
May 2018
I am very excited to announce my "German Photographs" series will be exhibited at Fondazione Prada, Venice, as part of the exhibition “Machines à penser”, curated by Dieter Roelstraete. The show "explores the correlation between conditions of exile, escape and retreat and physical or mental places which favor reflection, thought and intellectual production." Newly-printed in full analog by Grieger and scaled specifically for this exhibition, my entire "German Photographs" project is shown together here for the first time.
“Machines à penser” opens 26 May 2018 at Fondazione Prada, Venice. A preview opening by invitation is on May 25th. The exhibition runs through 25 November 2018.
Please let me know if you find yourself in Venice and have an opportunity to see the exhibition; and I hope to see some of you at the opening events!
For more information on “Machines à penser” please visit this link: http://www.fondazioneprada.org/project/machines-a-penser/?lang=en
December 2015
I was commissioned to make photographs for an article on the LA River. Please see this project here:
https://www.takepart.com/feature/2015/12/14/la-river/
Fast Slow Disco
FoyerLA has included two of my new photographs in their latest group show, opening Sunday November 14, 2021.
July 2021
Return of the Dragons
September 2019
FoyerLA presents my latest solo exhibition, Berlin Zoo, 1988. Taken as series of Kodachrome travel shots in my earliest working years, “Berlin Zoo, 1988,” 2017 registers the failures of colonial era collecting and categorization. The images of animals in their false habitats captures the melancholic conditions of confinement, and in turn, reverberate outward to a city that itself was caged for almost three decades.
As we near the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, these images have been retrieved from the archive to be re-contextualized and exhibited – a reflection for both the artist and ourselves. The failures of centuries of a conquering vision of nature have now resulted in an ongoing sixth mass extinction, and the lessons of a liberated Berlin seem long gone, as cages and walls echo through our contemporary American life.
This exhibition consists of twelve of fifteen from the series, printed analog as Cibrachome (IlfoChrome) reversal prints in 2016. This process, itself a lost art, has been supplanted by digital techniques and will soon cease to exist.
Also included in the exhibition is "Navy Trunk," 2017, a handmade duplication of a Korean War-era Navy trunk, which were built upon ships and used to send home personal effects. Again alluding to cold war art and geo-politics, the sculpture is another study of confinement and memory.
May 2018
I am very excited to announce my "German Photographs" series will be exhibited at Fondazione Prada, Venice, as part of the exhibition “Machines à penser”, curated by Dieter Roelstraete. The show "explores the correlation between conditions of exile, escape and retreat and physical or mental places which favor reflection, thought and intellectual production." Newly-printed in full analog by Grieger and scaled specifically for this exhibition, my entire "German Photographs" project is shown together here for the first time.
“Machines à penser” opens 26 May 2018 at Fondazione Prada, Venice. A preview opening by invitation is on May 25th. The exhibition runs through 25 November 2018.
Please let me know if you find yourself in Venice and have an opportunity to see the exhibition; and I hope to see some of you at the opening events!
For more information on “Machines à penser” please visit this link: http://www.fondazioneprada.org/project/machines-a-penser/?lang=en
December 2015
I was commissioned to make photographs for an article on the LA River. Please see this project here:
https://www.takepart.com/feature/2015/12/14/la-river/
