Wow, its been even longer

Totally forgot about this blogger. I've been doing my thing down in Old Virginia. It was a full semester teaching at Art Foundations and being a Shop Supervisor in the evenings at the woodshop. I've been working on some art here and there. mostly paintings and drawings. My attention has mainly been focused around my newly rediscovery of skateboarding. Some friends and i have been ripping it up at some parks and visiting a bowl that our friends have made. Most recently i've been making some ramps of my own which i feel is more of a positive towards my influencing my art. For the most part this interest has dominated my attention, but in the long run i believe it will only help the greater good.
Still kicking. i shall return

i forgot about this blog thing

Hey people, i forgot all about this blog stuff. a bit embarrassing but oh well. After the show in New Harmony, Charlotte, our dog Spottie, guinea pigs Nacho, Tater, our rabbit the late Polly Jean and I went out west to Colorado. We stayed with a friend of ours Matt Barton, who lives on the back side of Cheyenne Mountain. It was gorgeous. Deep in the woods, spottie felt one with nature, as nacho and tater skitishly hid from site except for a trip to the top of the tree house 20ft in the air. Polly remained surprisingly calm in her cage safe in the quasi hut barn, even though taxidermied animals perched on shelves and windows peering down at her. This was a sad foreshadowing that i later regretted. Charlotte made a horror film of us being massacred by matt who was a psycho killer who invited artist to his "residency" so that he could taxidermy them for his collection. I mostly was a bad actor and drank beer while enjoying CO.
After our exciting journey, we moved to Richmond VA at the beginning of August. Charlotte and I are currently teaching at the Art Foundations program at VCU. I'm sharing a studio with Matt Spahr and trying to get there as much as possible. New harmony pictures are coming.

Opening at the NH gallery on saturday

I've been preparing pretty hard for this show on Saturday. With the help of my wife Charlotte, my nephew William, and Alison and Sara from the gallery, We have transformed the walls of the gallery into piles of cubes. Using a thick black paint we covered 3 walls with stacks of cubes emerging, falling, and buried. After a couple hours, even the most experienced cube drawer/ painters will start to see a'skew, unable to stop their obsession of the geometric shape.

In my older work, I tried to make the environment in a space tight and confined. In this particular installation, I have overwhelmed the viewer's sight with organized chaos. The same imagery that i see when closing my eyes after playing too much tetris. i dream about falling blocks and the bastards won't leave me alone.

After this install i will need to check myself into a cubeular rehabilitation program which involves plenty of organic shapes such as sticks and rocks (aka Colorado)

Show at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary ART

All the information about the show's dates and time of opening is on the link below

http://www.usi.edu/nhgallery/events.asp


The Show will be a continuation of my Cubeular thinking. Lots of Cubes, Some Skateboard shit, and a whole lot of luv......

Check out my Student Work

They had to make something destroy itself, document it, and post it on youtube. pretty cool

http://www.youtube.com/user/colordesign2

Big T in Little C

So I gave my students over at Rowan University a video assignment. They were broken into 3 groups and had to recreate the movie Big Trouble in Little China. (just one of my most favorite movies of all time) Each group had 32 mins that they were in charge of paraphrasing. So what happen is they did the scenes they wanted and Charlotte, our friend Gus and I filled in any gaps in the story that we could and did some scenes they left out that i loved. It's in 3 sections because it's too long to be seen all at once on You tube, check it, pretty cool. in a week check out our Rowan channel on youtube because they have another assignment due where they have to make an object self destruct. it will be posted on there until, well until whenever it self destructs. later