OK Hotel

Short Days / a group painting exhibition

• Aaron Morgan Brown: http://www.aaronmorganbrown.com/
• Ann Piper: http://www.ann-piper.com/
• Stacie Chappell: http://www.staciechappell.com/
• Doug Parry: http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=1839
• Eric Swangstu: http://ericswangstu.blogspot.com/
• Rob Kmiec: http://robkmiec.blogspot.com/

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Facebook image gallery

I have a piece in the Kirkland Art Center’s Redux benefit this Friday!

A benefit party like no other happens December 4.

Wave Render

I am having a show in Dec 2010 @ the OK Hotel gallery in Seattle Washington. These images are site sketches built in a CAD program, it is a good way for me me to visualize the scale of the object in the space.

The wave images are meditations and exploration of the electromagnetic spectrum. What is very interesting to me and is unseen is that the wave images are are painted with light that I have created in the CAD application and not a material designation.

CAD Site sketch

Waves

Waves

Lite Waves

Waves

The Rock by Peter Blume

I grew up looking at this painting. It is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It has always been one of my favorite paintings. I was reminded of it by looking at the image I posted last night.

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/56682

Sketches for objects / fringe singularity node / Flickr

I found this image while sorting through some external hard drives.

Citrus Dissolve / 16″ x 20″ / light, acrylic on canvas.

Midway: Message from the Gyre By Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan’s work inspires me as an artist and confronts me as a human being.  A few years ago I encountered Jordan’s “Prison Uniforms, 2007″ a 6 panel 10ft x 23ft photograph. It depicted 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005. Initally I did not know what I was looking at, so I searched out the text and after recalibrating what I had been looking at with the title I was profoundly effected.

The Midway images are a equally morbid and beautiful. The sadness and suffering captured in the photos is so painterly it is almost as Anselm Keifer arranged the plastic and feathers.

Many artists struggle with wanting to make the world a better place with their art. Everyday passionate debates and strong convictions fall on the deaf ears of our brushes and chisels. How can an artist use their passion and most importantly their art practice to effect real change? I have been telling anyone who would listen to watch/ listen to Kate Grenville’s Artist in a time of climate change lecture. The conversation about our planetary reality needs to happen in this society, not every painting can be Eco-Guernica nor should be. I agree with Grenville that artists have a unique set of talents that persuade and enlighten, Chris Jordan is one of those artists.