What’s up - news and updates 2024
Image: CD installation in Corpus Christi, TX
group exhibition - Chelsea, New York
Exhibition dates: October 26–December 14, 2024
Project Vortex artist will be gathering all our plastic for an exhibition titled Reversing Trajectories.
At the School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery is SVA’s premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building
I am thankful to be a part of this unique collaborative. For this exhibition, I look forward to creating a new CD installation for SVA’s Chelsea Gallery.
Project Vortex is an international collective of artists, designers, and architects actively focusing on the global problem of plastic pollution through our work. Operating at the intersection of art and science, we strive to inspire people to rethink and reinvent plastic debris through innovation, creative stewardship, and education. We are dedicated to improving global understanding of the impacts of plastic consumption + pollution. We support and assist with the development of initiatives to restrict the flow of plastic debris to the oceans.
lecture - Oxford, Mississippi
Thursday, April 11, 2024, I am honored to be traveling to Mississippi to be a visiting artist to present a lecture and teach a workshop. If you are in the area that week, please reach out and join me on the campus of Ole Miss. And then on Friday, April 12th, I am looking forward to joining the University of Mississippi sculpture crew for their Spring Iron Pour.
lecture - Louisville, Kentucky
Thursday, March 21, 2024, I am honored to be traveling to Louisville, Kentucky to be the visiting artist/scholar for the Nora Iasigi Bullitt Memorial lecture. If you are in the area that week, please reach out and join me a the campus of the University of Louisville.
group exhibition - Alva, Oklahoma
Exhibition dates: January 25 – February 29, 2024
Thank you to the faculty of the Department of Fine Arts at Northwestern Oklahoma State University for welcoming our crew to exhibit at NWOSU and to connect with their students and community. This exhibition will feature OU.Sculpture alumni, current graduate students, and faculty.
Special thanks to Assistant Professor of Visual Art at NWOSU Thomas A.D. Cornell for all his work and support of to make this exhibition possible
Visiting Critic Lecture - Snowmass Village, Colorado
I am looking forward to visiting Anderson Ranch February 20th – 23rd, 2024, to lecture and meet with each of the current Artists in Residence.
Lecture: Feb 21, 2024 5:30PM-6:30PM (mountain time zone)
and recorded on Youtube
Anderson Ranch Art Center - An Art Original Since 1966
“It is a center, not a school. We’re different.” — Paul Soldner, Founder of Anderson Ranch Arts Center
In the beginning… It was the vision of prominent American raku ceramist Paul Soldner combined with an incredible land opportunity that paved the way for what Anderson Ranch is today—one of the most respected visual arts programs in the country.
In 1966, just as the ski industry began to blossom, local resort developers envisioned an arts and cultural center for the valley and surrounding community. They called on Soldner, who chose the Anderson Ranch property as the location for that venue, to make it a reality.
To learn more about Anderson Ranch visit: https://www.andersonranch.org
group exhibition - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Exhibition dates: January 25 – February 29, 2024
Thank you to the Tulsa Community College faculty for welcoming our crew to exhibit at TCC and to connect with their students and community.
There will be a closing reception Thursday, February 29th, 5-7pm. (Leap Year Day). If you are in the Tulsa area, please join us and see this exhibition in person.
Special thanks to Cassidy Frye and the TCC faculty for their work and support of this exhibition!
group exhibition - Oxford, Ohio
The World In Which We Live: The Art of Environmental Awareness at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum in Oxford, OH.
Exhibition dates: January 30-June 8, 2024
Curated by Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions, Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum
Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum
College of Creative Arts, Miami University
801 S. Patterson Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056
public art - Fort Worth, Texas
Marine Creek Parkway Public Art Project, Fort Worth, Texas
permanent, site-specific, outdoor roundabout sculptural installation
Curated by Iris Bechtol @irisbechtol - Alicia Eggert and I designed proposals for traffic roundabouts for the Fort Worth Public Art program. In addition to research about the city and assessment of the logistics of the roundabouts, we also considered the proposal guidelines that the sculptures at the “two roundabouts should tie into each other, connect without mirroring each other.”
public art exhibition - Johnson City, Tennessee
December 19, 2023 - April 15, 2025
Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes
Media: steel, blue PEX tubing, hardware, and artificial grass
18in x 63in x 63in
Reminiscent of inner tubes easing down a lazy river or bean bags in a living room, these sculptures provide playful, unusual benches with calm grassy centers at the eye of each storm. Inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the spring movement of the “wonderful toy” Slinky (as the longest-running jingle in advertising history so memorably describes it), this delightful installation features three circular forms that appear to be large Slinkys connected at the ends into rings and circling perfectly-maintained “lawns” of artificial grass.
outdoor group exhibition - Splendora, Texas
A Gift from the Bower, Splendora Gardens, Splendora, Texas, curated by Xandra Eden, Executive Director at Diverseworks in Houston, Texas; sculptor James Surls; and sculptor Jack Massing
April 22, 2023 - April 22, 2025
My addition to A Gift from the Bower is a sculptural installation titled Swing Set: Share a Share (Duyan: Ibahagi ang Balato)
public art - Russellville, Arkansas
Magnolia, Main Street Russellville, Russellville, Arkansas
This piece is permanent outdoor sculptural bike rack that was collaboratively designed and fabricated by the TLC Art Collective: Tiffany Black, a mural and mosaic artist, Leticia Bajuyo, a sculptor, and Christine Wilson, a landscape architect
installed November 2022
outdoor public art - O’Fallon, Missouri
The Shape of Community Rotating Sculpture Series
July 2022 - July 2024
For this juried, outdoor exhibition, Infinite Green, 2021 outdoor public sculptural installation has been selected to be part of the 2022/2023 The Shape of Community Rotating We at the TLC Art Collective are honored for our sculpture Infinite Green to be one of the City of O'Fallon's Cultural Arts Commission’s 10 large-scale sculptures for 2022/2023.
Infinite Green
materials: artificial turf, salvaged push mower, steel, paint, hardware, and adhesive
dimensions: 45” H x 120” L x 23” D