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Recent
News
updated June 2, 2010
- June
30 - July 25, 2010 - 2 pieces in the group
show, "Objectophilia"
which will be part of the upcoming Denver
Biennial of the Americas. The show is also sponsored by the
Denver
Museum of Contemporary Art. This new work, "The
Nature of Commodity" will be exhibited there, along with
"Monoculture".
- July
1, 2010 - 2 of my cycle-themed sculptures
will be exhibited at the
"Pedal Power" show in Portland, OR, at the
Compound
Gallery.
- May 2010 - Photographer Dennis Galloway made a portrait of me in the studio, using a wide lens and panoramic photography software.
- May 2010 - 2 of my cycle-themed sculptures are featured in the new book, "VELO - Bicycle Culture and Design", which was just published by Gestalten, out of Germany, but available here.
- May 15, 2010 - completed another commission, "The Beginning of the End", which is a variation on this earlier version of an Ouroboros themed sculpture I did in 2007.
- April 15, 2010 - finished one of the commissions - "GreedEater" is just in time for tax day !
- March
2010 - working on several private commissions
for collectors and finished a new icon, "Hallucination Engine" (part of my series of holy objects for religions which do not exist).
- February
24, 2010 - feature
article about Hoodz
Gallery and my work in the Oregon Daily Emerald today.
- February,
2010 - my work is featured in the new Juxtapoz
magazine (Feb issue, page 29)
- January
21, 2010 - feature
article about my work in "The Register Guard" (Eugene's
newspaper)
- January
8 - Feb 28, 2010 - solo
show in Portland, Oregon's SCRAP Re-Vision Gallery.
- December
2009 - new works completed, "Industrament"
and "Reliquary for the
Third Eye of William S. Burroughs"
- November
1, 2009 - making progress on the Chapel wall
at BRING Recycling. See work
in progress photos here.
- October
30, 2009 - new work completed, "Factotum";
named after a book by Charles Bukowski, it is a meditation on the
nature of meaningless work.
- October
10, 2009
- Honored that my sculpture "Retread"
was chosen by Jill Hartz (director of the Jordan
Schnitzer Museum of Art) as Best in Show for
the Object Afterlife Art Challenge, which is at BRING
Gallery through November.
- September
13, 2009 - "Bio-Cycle" sculpture
featured in Woman's
Day magazine (there may be an ad you need
to skip to see the article).
- September
10, 2009 - new
sculpture "Thirteen Skulls" completed in the tradition
of the Memento Mori.
- August
16, 2009 - new
sculpture, "Pollutacuda" completed. It's based on
an imagined prototype of this real
technology. UPDATE: this sculpture has been
purchased by Ripley's Believe It or Not for display in their Australian
museum.
- July
18, 2009 - Opening night at Device
Gallery in San Diego, CA for a group show and release of their
new book "Reconstructed". The book
is available online, here.
- June
18, 2009 - I've been invited to create a new
sculpture for the "JOYRIDE" bicycle art show, which happens
in New York City in conjunction with the Bicycle
Film Festival at the Anonymous
Gallery. The sculpture is called "R-Evolve",
and is now completed.
- June
9, 2009 - Tango-Echo
(new online zine) just ran an article about my work and philosophy.
- June
5, 2009 -
I have dontated a new sculpture to the Skateboard Art Show and Silent
Auction which is a fundraiser for a new skateboard park in Eugene.
The piece is called "Tribute
to the Fallen Skater". Info about the show is here.
- June
3, 2009 - I am honored to have been chosen
as "Artist of the Day" on this
site.
- May
2009 - The arts and literature magazine Denali
will be featuring a couple of my works in their 2009 edition (my
work is also on the cover).
- April
2009 - Studio
Visit magazine included my sculpture "RoundUp"
in the Spring 2009 edition
- April
2009 - 2011 - The City of Puyallup, Washington
installed one of my sculptures (a seated figure) in front of their
public Library. It is called "Waiter"
and can be seen here.
- April
18 , 2009 - "Trilo-Temporalis"
selected for the 2009 Pacific
Northwest Arts Annual show, at the University of Oregon's EMU.
- March
10, 2009 - "Paradise
Lost" was voted "Best in Show" at the 100
Artist's Show at the Mary Lou Zeek Gallery in Salem.
- March
6, 2009 - New
work created for "Mouthfull" show at Good
Gallery in Portland, OR.
- February
20 - March 20, 2009
- "Juxtaposed" - 8 new works in a group sculpture show
at Maude Kerns Center
- photos from Opening Reception here.
- February
5, 2009 - "Transcend" re-installed
in Keizer, OR. Newspaper
coverage here.
- February
3, 2009 - Paradise
Lost
available for bidding at "Inside
Out - 100 artists show" - sold on opening night.
- January
2009 - new works completed, here
and here. Other recent
work is getting good press on some notable blogs: Boing
Boing, Gizmodo,
designboom,
neatorama,
and hundreds
of others.
- December
2008 -
new
work, "The Great
Escape" completed; new
work, "Paradise Lost"
completed for the "100 Artists" invitational show at the
Mary
Lou Zeek Gallery in Salem, OR. Show opens in February 2009,
and will feature "Paradise
Lost"
- November
2008 -
the City of Keizer, Oregon has selected a figure for their new Public
Art Sculpture program: "Transcend"
was installed at The Keizer Plaza at 4914 River Rd N. Map
here, photos here.
- October
2008 -
New work completed - "Monoculture",
which is a reference to "factory forestry" practices.
- September
2008 -
juried into Eugene Mayor's Art Show for "RoundUp"
- September
2008 -
juried into "OVERLOAD" group show in Athens, Georgia.
My sculpture "Wired"
was displayed at the Athens Instituted
for Contemporary Art.
- September
2008 -
I've been accepted to the Portland
Art Open
- August
2008 -
New Works completed: "RoundUp"
"Dia de Los Muertos Memorial"
and "Birdhaus"
(all are for upcoming shows)
- August
2008 -
I've been juried into the next year of "Sculpture without Walls"
in Moses Lake, WA. "The
Last Thing the Little Fish Saw" will be displayed downtown
between Aug. 2008 - May 2009.
- July
2008 -
my "Great Blue Heron"
sculpture won the People's Choice Award at Moses Lake's
"Sculpture without Walls" exhibit. It will be purchased
by the City for their permanent sculpture collection. Here
is an article from their local paper.
- June
2008:
Guest Curator for a show at the Eugene Airport Gallery. Theme will
be Olympics, to coincide with the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials,
being held in Eugene. Show will be called "Let the Games Begin"
- May
2008
- New work completed, "Memorial"
is here
- My
book is now available: "Morphogenisis: explorations of
form and function in metal"
- May
2008 -
"Sarcrogenesis"
has been juried into the Pacific
Northwest Arts Annual, which opens May 1 at the EMU Cultural
Center, University of Oregon.
- May
2008 -
Solo show at DIVA
in Eugene: 3/32" - explorations of form within a narrow
medium
- May/April
2008 -
"Wired",
has been selected as the mascot for Bring
Recycling's Earth Day Art Show (juried)
- April
2008 -
Invited to participate in "Different Spokes", sponsored
by the Mary Lou Zeek Gallery
in Salem, OR. It's an invitational show of 15 sculptors from the
Northwest, in which bicycle parts are incorporated into the work.
My piece, "Bio-Cycle",
is here.
- January
2008 -
Sundance Film Festival will be premiering the movie "Half-Life"
, which has one of my sculptures in the movie. Their website
and movie trailer is here. The sculpture in the movie is a modified
version of this
Manta Ray.
- December
2007 -
Working on several commissions, and creating new work for the 3/32"
show in May.
- October
2007 -
Commissioned by Lane
County Mental Health Services to create 2 memorial benches,
to honor the late Richard K. Sherman, a tireless advocate for the
mentally ill. The benches and memorial are completed, (photos soon)
- October
2007 -
I was invited to be a guest designer for "Extreme
Makeover - Home Edition" television show, and
donated two sculptures for
their renovation of a house in Corvallis, Oregon for the Byers family.
The episode aired on October 9. Photo
of sculpture in their house here.
- September
2007 -
2 sculptures selected by the jury for "Sculpture without Walls"
show in Moses Lake, WA. Show is outdoors through Sept. 2008. Photos
and info here.
- August
2007 -
3 new pieces (from this past summer) posted in new
work. Here,
here, and
here.
- August
2007 -
Invited to show 3 wall hanging sculptures for the "Oregon
Made for Interiors" show at Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene,
OR. July 20 - Aug. 31.
- July
2007 -
Solo Show at Sam Bond's Garage, : "Workdrink"
- July 27 - August 30th, 2007
- April
2007 -
Solo Show at Maude Kerns Art Center, "Steeling
Space" . Gallery
page is here.
(news page
started April 2007)
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