Exhibition photos from Houston show!

Huzzah! I finally got the first set of installation photos from my show at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, “Total Fabrications.” It filled 3000 square feet and had five different components. The show came down last Sunday and I am crying softly to myself about it. It was such an amazing experience and I can’t begin to laud curator Meredith Goldsmith enough for being so fabulous to work with

Works included:
–“Towards a New Theory of Color Reading (El Dia/Houston Forward Times/Manila Headline)”: a large billboard-like display of colorfield newspapers based on three Houston ethnic journals. Newspapers were free for gallery visitors to take!
–”Body Double (Platoon/Apocalypse Now/Hamburger Hill)”: a three-channel video work on LCD monitors
–“The Berlin Wall”: a “collection” of rocks from my idea of The Berlin Wall
–”La Maison Tunisie (After Charlotte Perriand)” and “Four Days Towards a New Modernism (After Charlotte Perriand)”: two shelf-like structures built of salvaged materials
–”The Village (Small Encampments)”: four photographic diptychs and a slide projector with 80 images on rotation

SFMOMA blog post: on DIY, Freecell, and more

I was invited by SFMOMA blog mistress Suzanne Stein to do a little blog entry on a portion of the “Participation” show that was up in the museum, specifically a commissioned project by New York design group Freecell. What results is a rumination on DIY, individual anarchy, and the question of “failure” within open-ended projects…

“On Letting Them Do It Themselves: Activated Anarchy vs. Designed Intentions”