Website

http://www.dimensionsvariable.org

Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle; Pratt Institute, NY

Program

Sculpture, Art History, Theory & Criticism

Graduation

5 May 2006

Member type

Artist, Critic, Curator

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Printmaking, Sculpture

I am...

I’m a welder/printmaker/ink & paper image-maker living and working in Seattle, Washington. My current series revolves around process, repetition, presence, and labour. Let’s think of it as a fictional cartography, combining methods of mapping with the idea of place.

About my artwork

Most of the work embodies a topographical feel either by process or by pattern. While not intentional, it’s not without reason. I have purpose in materials but intuit the process, like formulæ without the math. The element of surprise is critical – the rule is don’t think about the end result, and while paper, steel, ink are the media they are not the point.

In drawings, I traverse distance by threading or tracing across a field of paper. An aesthetic result is almost circumstantial, as each mark records the path behind it. It is a marker of where I am, and of where I’ve been.

In printmaking, I corrode steel plates to destroy the surface and leave an impression on paper -- the corrosion becomes part of the finished work as well as the process. The embossed and rusted surface effectively records a moment of human interference—a stain being an inherently human deposit. This too, records that I was here.

Process, repetition, and labour are the methods by which I reach a conclusion.
Philosophy, obsession, and location are my exploration.

Artists I like

Those incomprehensible geniuses who take ordinary objects, concepts, and techniques to transcend their media and my expectations.

Tara Donovan
Eva Hesse
Richard Serra
Tom Friedman
Sol le Witt

Interests

Recently, my art subscription/rogue gallery project Artomaton.org folded, due to an irreconcilable issue with my web host and domain registrar.

I am looking forward to the near future when I start the project anew, renamed as LxWxH at dimensionsvariable.org.

If you are interested in participating or are curious about the plan, please stay tuned. As the project grows, I will update with more details.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Mary Temple in Seattle at Western Bridge.

The centre of the artworld is

my studio, nowhere and everywhere