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Just moved to Cincinnati to teach art, can't believe they pay me for this.

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I run the Art Foundations program here at DAAP in the University of Cincinnati

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

200th post!

I am so glad that today is my 200th post. That seems like not that much, but I guess now that I have a job, posting on the blog has gone to the wayside.

Just went over to the studio this morning and got lots and lots of shots. Here are some of my favorites. These are part of a new piece I am doing at Artworks in Cincinnati, for the group show Paper Chasers!


The wall text on the left of the piece is going to be a better version of this diagram of my hair.


This is going to be part of the 10 examples of the various types of asteroids and how drunk they each are.

I think these are the lakes that my Dad slept beside when he rode his bike around florida. I have to decide that later.


The "tooth" is actually the biggest door stop I have ever seen in my life.


The top painting is a haz mat type suit guy, or maybe my dad as a space captain outside of the ship. The bottom one is a diagram of how asteroids have sex.


(if you scroll down you can see the bad photoshop picture I used for this one.


I was thinking that this would be the picture of myself/my dad when he became a captain in space. I had this whole other idea about the show before I realized that I wanted to make a museum that lives inside of a hair that fell out of my head.


this is the final arrangement of the protest for the movie 50 first dates.


little detail of the picket signs


I was thinking about doing another set of clipboard drawings. The format makes hanging so much easier, plus it adds to the antiquarian museum feel.

not sure If I am going to use these in the show or not, I just made them yesterday and really only like the Wookie show. I thought for a second that I was going to add some kind of circus look to some of the objects, like the dragon tooth, but then realized that having it look like a shitty museum would be better.

Today I have to work on the bar graph on a cardboard tube that demonstrates my psudo-political affiliations from 1985 to present. I think it is going to look like a core sample of the earth.

Older work

Here is a list of links to some older installations I have done. A few people have been asking me to put this all together, and I need to anyway, because in a month I start working on my new website.

The piece Autobiographic Romantic Comedy over at David Rosenthal's Gallery (scroll down and click on the photos for much bigger versions).

No One Wants to be a Hero which is the second version of a work that happened to be in Mike Martin's Gallery down in Knoxville, TN.

Meyers Gallery, University of Cincinnati, here is the overview and window of Every Known Disease

Here is some more from The Cure for Every Known Disease

You can check out shots from my OLD Stuido In Scioto Hall. This link is kind of a mother load of lots of close ups of work. Thanks a lot to Chad for taking these pics before I moved out of that place when they started remodeling. I'll post the new studio shots today! Can't wait for everyon to kknow what I have been making.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008



Ummm.... so I guess this is my future.

I'm working on a new installation and I was going to make captain's portraits of myself as my dad, so I needed an image to work from. I found this old one and took off my hair. Man that is beyond scarry. When I was in Undergrad at James Madison I shaved my hair into male pattern baldness one night, and then went to see my girlfriend, who at first thought it was just a bald wig. But then when she felt it, she started screaming! So far I'm only thinning, just a bit on the right side near my hair line. Soon I will have to investigate the short hair, clean cut look. But for now, I'm keeping my Jimmy Neutron hair!