Water is Taught by Thirst
Steel cables, fluorescent lights, mixed media
Room dimensions: 15' x 18' x 14'
2013
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Gelman Gallery
Water is Taught by Thirst
Steel cables, fluorescent lights, mixed media
Room dimensions: 15' x 18' x 14'
2013
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Gelman Gallery
Steel cables under tension stretch from wall to wall in a three-part structure that changes angles in midair. Populated with fluorescent lights, clear tubing filled with fluid, extensions cords, cables, rope, string, fabric, paper, wood, and plastic, the dizzying array merges with the architecture of the surrounding space.
An Imitation of a Light
Daylight, tubing, water pumps, fluorescent lights, programmed electronics, mixed media
15' x 15' x 10'
2013
An Imitation of a Light is a looming wall of matter, extruding from a slanted opening cut into the far wall of a saturated yellow room. The wall is organized around a gradient of material, transitioning from reflective and translucent materials like clear plastic, thread, and glass to opaque materials like painted canvas strips, rope, string, metal, chains, and paper. The piece is activated by the motion of hot pink fluid pumping through tubing that weaves throughout the wall. Lights embedded in the far end of the wall,nearest the natural light, turn on at night.
A Force Illegible
Steel, polystyrene, mixed media
10' x 10' x 11'
2013
The Whole of it Came Not at Once
Monofilament, staples, paper
10' x 12' x 10'
2013
A Single Hour of the Day: 2:47 PM
Daylight, monofilament, staples
10' x 12' x 10'
2013
Sunlight streams through two apertures in a wall and interacts with a grid made out of monofilament. Because the grid is tilted, viewers can enter and see it from beneath or walk through to the far wall. As the day progresses the environment changes, from subtle camera obscura projections to saturated pinpoints of reflected light on the ground. The light on the grid changes based on the viewer's location.
A Chemical Conviction
Water, glass, string, foam, nickel oxide
12' x 4' x 4'
2013
then space began to toll
projected animation, programmed electronics, water pumps, glass, water, graphite, fluorescent tubes, oil
actual duration: 11 minutes
2012
then space began to toll is an electronic installation in which a sequence of events occur over a duration of eleven minutes. All of the components are automated and require no intervention, except for the initial triggering of the piece. A projected animation, calibrated to the objects in the room, draws lines and reveals select parts of the installation as it progresses. This is synced to physical events, such as light bulbs turning on, water dripping into tanks, light boxes flashing, and water pouring from the ceiling.
the clock strikes one that just struck two
motors, aluminum, cables, lead, sand, water, steel, salt, metal detritus
2011
Mnemonic/Periodic
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
2012
In Mnemonic/Periodic, two hundred sculptures are displayed in a grid on the gallery floor. The artist created ten sculptures every day for twenty days, and then went through the process of recalling as many as possible.
The sculptures are displayed in the order in which they were remembered, with the forgotten sculptures in a corner off the grid.
Two memory charts accompany the piece, comparing the order in which the pieces were created to the order in which they were recollected.
