solo exhibition: TAF Flagship Tulsa, OK
Foreground: Just Make Cookies, 2021 tractor trailer 5th wheel, custom propane burner, cookie dough, artificial sweeteners
link for Just Make Cookies performance
Video: Bama Boy, 2022 color video and digital animations 8min 31sec
link for Bama Boy video
This sculpture was inspired by activists in Tulsa, OK who
were told by a local petrochemical representative to “just bake cookies” to hide the smell of noxious gases the factory was illegally venting into
their neighborhood.
performance actions included baking a chocolate chip cookie on a tractor trailer 5th wheel coupler, dancing with police batons and creating an incense sculpture infused with used motor oil inside scent diffusers and soaked into blank incense sticks. video performance documentation
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Propane Amphora, 2023
aqua-resin
20 x 16 x 12 inches
On A Mesa, 2023
color video, 3D animations, AI generated text
13 min loop
Amyloid Dream, 2023
cast aluminum from 3D prints
37 x 28 x 14 inches
Mechanics of Flesh, 2023
aqua-resin
23 x 31 x 18 inches
performers: Jonathan Durham, Suzanne Kite, Robbie Wing, Zacry Spears
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In this work I sculpted features like a setting sun and spikes inspired by trilobite fossils directly onto a steel propane tank. Then I made rigid sectional casts from the tank and fused them together to form a broken relic. Aqua-resin is a plastic infused gypsum material that has the surface quality of sandstone in its unpainted state.
performers: Jonathan Durham, Suzanne Kite, Robbie Wing, Zacry Spears
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installation view *sounds of wolves howling and my mother (who has Alzheimer’s) whispering through an adaptable PVC system connecting the sculptures along the gallery wall. The audio leaks out of breaches in the pipes. video/audio link
installation view *sounds of wolves howling and my mother (who has Alzheimer’s) whispering through an adaptable PVC system connecting the sculptures along the gallery wall. The audio leaks out of breaches in the pipes. video/audio link