Website

http://www.valuistics.com

Relationship status

married

College / University

BFA University of Northern Iowa, MFA University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Program

Studio BFA, Studio MFA, respectively

Member type

Artist, Critic, Curator, Non-Profit, Other

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

Conceptual, Digital, Drawing, Event, Installation, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Video

I am...

An artist and educator working with personal and societal issues in work that is unsentimental and sometimes funny. A word inventor. The progenator of valuistics. A father of 2 progenies.

About my artwork

Polyvinyl, acrylic and petroleum products arranged either by hand or through a silkscreen or cut with a ninjasaw. Digital photography becomes a lot of things. Slices. All did-it-yourself but that could change. Writing should be separate thing. Among a minority, I see. I have kids and steal time from myself to make art work. So far it works.

Artists I like

Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Bob Rauschenberg, Paul Verhoven, Tom Friedman, Homer, Dante Alighiri, Herman Melville, Sheppard Fairy, Crystal Wagner, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Martin Parr, Cormac McCarthy, Mel Gibson, Aaron Wilson, Tim Dooley, Jeffery Byrd, Beauvais Lyons, Mark Creegan,

Interests

Nature, culture, technology, society, styrofoam, cartoons, video games, trees,

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Making Marks at MOCA Jacksonville
It's Your World: A Tribute To Bob Ross at the Studio Collective
Design and the Elastic Mind and Color Chart at MoMA

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere