My video series “Darling, Work” has been included in snark.art’s online artist roster. Snark is a tech laboratory exploring creative and commercial possibilities in art, enabling artists to innovate on the blockchain and allowing its artists to sell their work as NFTs.
CENTRO San Antonio "Art in the Public Realm"
My work Coahuiltecan has been chosen to be exhibited on the outside of the new Frost Tower in San Antonio in 2022~! I’m super excited that this piece will be part of Centro San Antonio’s Art in the Public Realm series!
This piece was made for Common Currents, a city-wide exhibition of 300 San Antonio artists, each assigned to a year in the city's history. As part of San Antonio's Tricentennial Celebration, the exhibition was hosted by four major San Antonio Art institutions including Artpace, where this piece was shown. This piece received the most “likes” on Instagram of any other piece in the Artpace exhibition! The year assigned to me was 1724.
The Coahuiltecan were the nomadic indigenous people living in San Antonio and surrounding areas in 1724. That year, a severe storm, possibly a hurricane, destroyed the original Alamo (Mission San Antonio de Valero) at San Pedro Springs, which was simply a series of huts that had been used by the Spanish missionaries to indoctrinate the Coahuiltecan into Christianity. That same year after the storm, construction began on the "new" Alamo at the location where it now sits, and where this process of indoctrination continued. This piece foregrounds the Coahuiltecan wickiup--the impermanent, portable dwellings they constructed out of brush and branches--in a black and white, somewhat removed image that is in the process of being airbrushed/disintegrated into the landscape. This visual metaphor of disintegration directly correlates with the deliberate disintegration of the Coahuiltecan's culture by the Spanish colonizers. Behind the wickiup and bleeding through it is an image of the Alamo on its current site shortly after it was reduced to ruins. The layered structures sit high in a harsh landscape with gathering clouds--a coming storm. A page of text used in the missionaries' enculturation/indoctrination process entitled "Fallacías del Demonio Que Destruyen lá Caridad (Fallacies of the Demon That Destroys Charity)" hovers over and intrudes on the landscape. The Coahuiltecan hunted javelina and wore coyote skins, thus the appearance of these animals in the motif.
San Antonio Report covers the Every Woman Biennial! →
Arts and Culture reporter Nicholas Frank did a deep-dive into NFTs and the Every Woman Biennial for this article. My video work was minted as an NFT for this exhibition, which is going on now at Superchief Gallery NFT (the world’s first all-NFT gallery!) in New York City and London. This exhibition took steps to lessen its NFT carbon footprint!
My Love Is Your Love-Every Woman Biennial
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been invited to exhibit in the 2021 Every Woman Biennial, which will be held in June and July in London and New York. EWB is collaborating with Superchief Gallery NFT, the world’s first physical gallery space dedicated to NFT art. I’m excited that my video work will be minted as an NFT, which provides provenance of the work and greatly helps artists working in digital media!
The EVERY WOMAN BIENNIAL is about uplifting women and non-binary artists; creating opportunities, encouragement, connection, community, inspiration and love. The Biennial brings together established artists – including Tracy Emin and Swoon – alongside emerging artists.
The Biennial launched in NYC in 2014 by founder C. Finley, originally under the name The Whitney Houston Biennial, as a way to provide a platform and exposure for more female artists. Each year, one of Whitney Houston’s songs celebrating women lifting each other up provides the title for the Biennial, as well as a block-party style street dance. This year’s Biennial theme is MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE. Get ready to dance on June 24!
Click here for more info: http://2021.everywomanbiennial.com/about-me/
"Over the Structures" at CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea March/April 2021!
CICA Museum, Seoul, S. Korea, 2021
I was invited to exhibit my new video series Darling, Work in Over The Structures at the CICA Museum, which runs during March/April, 2021 and I couldn’t be more excited! I only wish I would have been able to travel there for the opening, but Covid of course has made that impossible.
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) is a unique cultural space founded by Czong Ho Kyim and the museum has been cultivated by the artist and his team for the last 25 years.
Since 2014, CICA Museum has networked with over 4,000 international artists while organizing experimental publications & international exhibitions. More info here: https://cicamuseum.com/about-2/
Click here for catalog: https://cicamuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/Over-the-Structures-2021_Catalog.pdf
"In the Screen" at the 59th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival!
Lil post about some goings-on: It’s been really fun and freeing to create and inhabit a cast of characters that are basically commenting on the absurdity of life over the last year, and well…the absurdity of life anytime. The pandemic changed my work, at least for the time being. Sometimes being an artist is fun! My newest video series Darling, Work is part of this year’s Ann Arbor Film Fest. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America, founded by George Manupelli in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 180 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, fiction, and performance-based works.
Link to the film festival: https://59aaff.eventive.org/inthescreen
New video series to be exhibited at the CICA Museum in Seoul and the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival!
My new and ongoing video series Darling, Work on Instagram and Tik Tok is going gangbusters! Meant to work in the sphere of social media and in the context of exhibition, the video series has been chosen for Over the Structures at CICA Museum in Seoul, South Korea and the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan in 2021. The museum chose a compilation that strings together various deconstructions of identity and serializes them into a loose dialog with each other. These videos are part of an ongoing series created on IG and Tik Tok and mostly shared on Instagram. They are meant to work in the sphere of social media, online viewing and in the context of exhibition. This series comments on social issues, tech, relationships, gender equity, deconstruction/reconstruction of identity, fragmentation, and the worldwide insanity we're all experiencing. It attempts to deal with grief, incredulousness, disbelief, frustration and anxiety and finds a solution by embracing humor as a social sanction against inflexibility. Each video is a short vignette that utilizes the face of the artist, always altered in order to deconstruct identity, make the person in the video irrelevant, and the character she is portraying relevant--subverting the selfie and attempting to subvert facial recognition.
To view the compilation, click here.
Fragmented Identities
I’m super excited to be chosen to exhibit my new Instagram video series IN FULL (!) in Fragmented Identities, an exhibition at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello from September 03 to October 02, 2020, as part of the Borders Festival at the Venice International Art Fair. The series is located under the video section of this site and fits perfectly with the exhibition’s theme, which is “…inspired by this new era, exploring the connection between desires, needs, and fears that bring humankind to change, to transform and to evolve.”
¡Viva! A Live Streaming Telethon for Artist Relief during Covid19!
I was very happy to be asked to participate in the Corona Arts Relief Telethon, streamed live on luminariasa.org, TPR.org and NowcastSA.com on May 9th. There’s still time to donate, artists are falling through the cracks of relief funding.
Luis Leu Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
My newest video work was featured in January 2020 at Luis Leu Gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany, along with colleagues who work in integrated media. The work is a new and ongoing series on Instagram that is re-contextualized for exhibition in this show. All my work in this series are in the Work—>video section of this site as well!
CASPFest
My video work powerline (heave) https://vimeo.com/131020098 was chosen for this inaugural contemporary festival, taking place April 26th and 27th, 2019.
Presented by Charles Adams Studio Project, CASPFEST is an inaugural two-night festival of art, film, & music, which aims to showcase exceptional contemporary art. The national art exhibition is juried by Christina Rees, the films curated by Paul Allen Hunton & Jonathan Seaborn, & the music will feature bands from across the state of Texas. This is the first annual event of its kind, & will take place April 26th and April 27th, at the 5&J Gallery in Lubbock, Texas.
Video installation for Habitable Spaces
Habitable Spaces artist residency and sustainable farm hosted an exhibition titled Transit featuring Texas and Berlin artists. Show will travel to Berlin in late 2019. In addition to the exhibition, they hosted a fantastic dinner with all food supplied by the farm. Below are some pics of my large-scale projection titled chaosterrain, along with some video stills.
Sneak peek
Video work in progress: construct
Rucka Artist Residency/Workshop, Cesis, Latvia
In 2016, I did a residency/workshop at Rucka Artist Residency through the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art. The many artists, writers, semioticians, and linguists I met there--many from the Baltic states, others from all over the world--were an inspiration. A lot of discussion, actions, listening, walkabouts, and great food and drink had an important impact on the work I have made since. Shout out to my roommates Carlos and Tadas and to the amazing artists Edd Schouten, Inga Erdmane and Styrmir Örn Gudmundsson.
Hello world...
Since this is a brand new website and I have a whole lot of news to post: past, present, future?--I'm just picking and choosing highlights of different time periods from my old site, in addition to including what's happening right now. It's actually pretty refreshing to clean out the closet and pare things down. It's all relevant--time is a continuum, and the relentless demand for the latest info is not so important to me, although it's nice to focus on the more recent. So with that said...Onward into past (prologue), present and future updates!
2017 has seen my work shown at The Whitney Biennial as part of Occupy Museums; as an exhibitor/participant in Yoko Ono's "Arising" project at the Reykjavïk Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, TX for their 30 year anniversary exhibition titled "Homage"; The Southwest School of Art in San Antonio for Contemporary Art Month's Perennial Exhibition. Upcoming: Common Currents, San Antonio's Tricentennial Celebration at Artpace, San Antonio.
Documentation of participants/exhibitors in Yoko Ono's Arising project. Reykjavïk Art Museum
Faculty exhibit at UTSA Gallery, Nov. 2017
Landscape and Memory, CAM Perennial Exhibition, SW School of Art Navarro Gallery, 2017
comingdown installed at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum for Homage, Blue Star's 30th Anniversary exhibition, 2017