Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar

Honors students made their own instruments and rocked out! This is a video created by a group of non-artist non-musicians that formed three bands and wrote original compositions on their own personally designed  electronic instruments. This class brought me back into a collaboration with Dominic Johnson a classically trained musician…

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Beverly Art Walk 2019

We were invited BACK to the Beverly Art Center – This time we took over both floors. More Height became the fitting title as we sought to extend our reach. These are a few photos from this year’s exhibit. I collaborated with 20 students and alumni to create this exhibit….

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La Biennale di Venezia

I spent a week in Venice, Rome and Esclapon. I was there to shoot a document of the huge Venice art show, La Biennale di Venezia,  in order to bring back the newest artworks for my students in Modern and Contemporary Art History and 3D Design classes. My boss, Dr….

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Guitar – DESK

I bought a truck. This allows me to collect furniture. I live in a neighborhood built in the 1950’s They trow away really nice furniture. Voila – A guitar is born. note – This project is still under construction the screen in front of the speaker is still being hotly…

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BALL – Guitar

BALL

This instrument was created through the processes of experimentation and failure. I was attempting to create a sample wooden sphere for my 3D students to study. A miscalculation left me with a half constructed 3/4 sphere. Decorative holes designed into the perimeter happened to perfectly fit a section of broomstick…

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SWIRL – Guitar

I sketched this guitar in the car while my wife was driving us back to Chicago from Iowa. I wanted to essentially Decorate and electrify a tin can guitar that I had built on a 2×2 plank in my garage. Most of the laser work that I did was purely…

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VR VAC

This is my virtual painting of the Visual Art Center at SXU   Use your Scroll wheel to zoom Use your left mouse button to rotate Use your right button to scan left / right / up / down  

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