Waymaker Gallery:
The Mysterious House of Colors

This show was produced in collaboration with the children of Clinton Middle School. I asked one group of children to decide what sort of objects belonged in the art show and then worked with a second group of students to decide what the stories were behind all the works of art.

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Waymaker Gallery:
Saving Sisyphus

This show was produced with another artist who chose to remain anonymous. The initial premise of the show was to have a show of Jackson Pollock paintings displayed on the ground, the way that the artist would have seen them. Part of the power of Pollock's work is that it resisted being seen as an image, a quality that has since been lost in the wake of his huge popular success. Since it would be impossible to make a show about resisting the impulse to view something as an image, and then document it with imagery, it was decided that viewers could only see the show through video. Each painting had a video dedicated to act of looking at it in space.

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Waymaker Gallery:
Works on View

The Waymaker Gallery was invited to participate in Chicago's NEXT fair. Rather than pack up a bunch of works and try to sell them as might be expected, I sent out an open call asking for images of 2D art works. Once I had the work of about twenty artists, I built a virtual booth in which to display the artworks and printed a catalogue of the works on view. For the actual booth I simply set up a green screen and a camera and asked visitors to select the artwork they wished to view. Once the fair was over I carefully composited each of the visitors into the gallery, looking at the work of their choice, and sent an email to everyone who had participated and provided a site where they could download their image. The 164 images are cycled randomly.

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Waymaker Gallery:
Manifold Structures

This show was produced in collaboration with the artist Alexander Lee. When asked what he would do for an art show if he could anything at all, he said that he would like to take the entire corner of Wabash and Monroe from Chicago and place it into a gallery. The idea was to take the exterior context of his daily walk to school and reframe it within the context of the gallery, inverting our expectations and revealing the inability of the gallery setting to properly convey the majority of our experience.

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Waymaker Gallery:
Kazimir's Blueprints

This show was produced in collaboration with Jason Loebs. When Kazimir Malevich was returning from Poland in the 1920's he was harassed while going through customs because his art was considered dangerous. Through an anecdote from a fictional newspaper we imagined that the only way he would be able to get his drawings through customs was to lie and say that they were really architectural plans. Based on this premise we constructed the 'buildings' that his drawing might have implied. The buildings were each generated by a small amount of computer code, some of which was written on the wall of the gallery.

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Waymaker Gallery:
Oomlou Nioni's Menagerie

This show was the first show at the Waymaker Gallery and it was produced with a fictional artist named Oomlou Nioni. I made a brief stop motion animation at an extremely high resolution and then re-edited that animation over and over, moving within the frame. The animation is of a cartoon water dragon like the Loch Ness monster who moves in a manner counter to our intuition. We expect the part of the creature that we cannot see to echo the part that we can see, yet the truth is that the part of the dragon underneath the water is unknown and unknowable and so it does not need to act according to the expectations and demands of our reason.

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