My Wife and i shared the front gallery at the Chicago Art Department for the annual Art Walk I showed this work
Pilsen Art Walk 2010
Torn 9: Dimensional – 2010
Series Nine: Dimensional THREE D SERIES In these works I wanted to play with sculpting the surface. mixing paper and string and glass with my encyclopedia pages.
These Guys Work for Me – 2010 – 2015
These Guys were made at Cad West Studio on Hubbard Street around 2010. It started as a reaction to an old photo of an old painting that I made when I first moved to Chicago in 2001 The canvases were mostly red gold and black, in the summer of 2015…
Picture Books – 2009
These were are the product of a very strange set of collaborations between me and two performance artists. One was a photographer who feature sarcastic-erotic-precarious self portraits. The other was a set and costume designer that built a crazy surrealistic funkshop in our gallery for a week called Salvador’s Wardrobe.
Torn 8: Mashers – 2009
Series Eight: Mashers SHMASH SERIES In these works I wanted to exploit the cognitive properties of merger by association. I smashed various ideas into small compositions to force associations between the content.
Pilsen Art Walk – 2008
I love this photo of this art
Torn 7: Page Numbers – 2008
Series Seven: Page Numbers DIGIT ZOOM SERIES In a respnose to a commission proposal, I took one of my Little Squares (the earliest pieces in the Torn Series) and magnified it from 4 inches to 4 feet. The results were very interesting and I did hundreds of variations. Here are…
Torn from Britannica @ CAD – 2007
This was my first solo show at the Chicago Art Department, Im not sure that I would have made this many paintings had the opportunity to exhibit them was not available. Knowing that I have an audience in the members of the Chicago Art Department and the Pilsen arts community…
Torn 6: Clothes – 2007
Series six: Clothes SHIRTS SERIES I was working with a fashion designer around this time and it seemed completely logical for that to infect my work.
Torn 5: Doors – 2006
Series Five: Doors CLOSE-OPEN-CLOSE SERIES I think it was probably my second painting in college. It was a red door. I loved figuring out that I could paint light without using light colored paint, but by using dark. I revisit this composition regularly. I often use it as a warm…