Curriculum Vitae

Education

BFA Sculpture

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN

Fine Arts Program (Graphic Design and Photography)

Dominican University River Forest, Ill

Artist Representation (Selected Works)
Artista Bottega, St Paul, MN

Past Artist Representation

Eyeconic Art Services, Minneapolis MN

Artist Residencies
Photographer in Residence
"Blues and the Spirit II" Dominican University River Forest, Ill

Solo Exhibitions

 Deep Field Series (Selected Works), November - December 2016, Claddagh Cafe, St Paul, MN
 Deep Field Series, April 2016, Artista Bottega, St Paul, MN

Artist Talks 
"Art and Science: A History" October 17th 2016, Inver Hills Community College Math Club, Inver  Grove Heights, MN
"Art and Science: A History" April 30th 2016, Artista Bottega, St Paul MN

Group Exhibitions
"Art Perchance"  August 2011, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mlps, MN
 "Salon 300" August 2011 Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
"April Foolishness" April 2011, Center for Performing Arts, Minneapolis, MN

"All staff art show" December 2010- February 2011, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mlps, MN 

"Salon 300" August 2010 Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN

"Foot in the Door 4" February -June 2010, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mlps, MN

"aRt: ReDefine, ReCreate, ReInvent" March 2009, Rau + Barber, Minneapolis, MN

"Senior Project Exhibition" December 2007, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mlps, MN

"Theater of Time" April 2006, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

Organizations
C&B Productions - Co-Founder 
Organize and coordinate pop- up art shows and sales 

Unidentified

Mixed Media 

(Scrap Steel on Red Oak)

E.V. 1

Mix Media

(Steel, 18v Motor, Modified Bike Frame) 

I came across an image of a motorized bicycle with a small engine and a soda bottle for a gas tank. I wondered how that bike might change if it was created in a different context, with different technologies available to create something similar.  

My context is that of home made (EV’s) electric vehicles, motorcycles as wells as other DIY projects. I wanted to redefine an electric bicycle while still keeping it in the realm of the bicycle. By modifying the frame, removing the pedals, and creating a new seat the bike is recreated while still retaining the identity of a bicycle.

The Intangibility of Flight

Mixed Media

(Fiberglass, Steel, Lawn Mower Engine)

 Fight has been a human obsession through out recorded history. Only relatively recently has human flight been a possibility. Human flight has taken many forms since Kitty Hawk with the most improbable developments taking place during the Cold War era. My belief is that sometimes the craziest ideas are the best. 

working post

Draco Caecus

Scrap Steel

January 14, 2008 (One Mile from Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant)

 Mixed Media

(Toy Truck, Fire Crackers)

Every so often somebody does some so crazy and stupid that I can’t help but embrace it. One such event happened on January 14, 2008 one mile from the Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant in Redwing MN. Brian Childs blew up a dump truck with 100lbs of Tannerite (an impact explosive that manly used my marksmen in target practice) sending debris a quarter a mile away. Blowing up a dump truck is not the smartest idea, but the explosion would be a site to see.

The original act hold place in my imagination, because of two main things the sheer ignorance involved as well as the spectacle of the act. This small-scale recreation is my way to try and understand doing something as crazy.

Over Balanced Wheel (1 and 2)

 Mixed Media 

(Oak, MDF, electric motor)

 

 Mixed Media 

(Oak, MDF, marbles, electric motor)

The idea of perpetual motion machines is that once they are put in to motion they won’t stop moving and therefore providing free and unending energy. The shifting mass of the over balanced wheel is what is supposed to keep it in motion, but physics gets in the way.

Even though the perpetual motion machine violates two of the most solid and tested laws of physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Law of Conservation of Energy, people through out the ages have spent time to create new and different versions of these machines.

I have recreated two of the most common versions of the perpetual motion machines, the over balanced wheel. Because there is no such thing as free power, a small motor attached to the back puts the machine in to motion.

Remotely Operated Vehicle (R.O.V.)

Mixed Media

(PVC Pipe, Acrylic, Bilge Pumps, Camera, 12v Battery)

There are so many places we can go, but there are many ways for us to get to those places. Remotely Operated Vehicles (submarines) are away for us to explore places that we can’t go to.

Exploration and reaching out to the unknown has always been a part of the human experience and has become removed from everyday life. The R.O.V. project is a way to enter in to exploration.

PowerBoard

 

 Mix Media

(Wood, Fiberglass, Aluminum, Steel, Chain Saw Motor)

This project had been brewing in my head for a while; the idea of personal transportation and how we get around has always been a “problem” that has occupied the human condition. We have been in a state of constant progression to the next and new version of these ideas.

I chose the form of the skateboard because the skateboard has an image associated of rogue individualism.  Then by adding a motor and large wheels it takes on the characteristics of a large truck while placing it in the realm of the absurd.

I place it on a base that references the way that SUV's and other off-road vehicles are sold. 

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City at Night

The more I make pictures with the cell phone camera the more I like it. It's kind of like a digital Holga you have very little control of the exposure and field of focus.
Even tho the new iphone (like I have) has a flash,
the range is limited and only works well in a short range.

I do like the grain in the low light images.

10 Lessons the Arts Teach

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it
is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.

SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

http://www.naea-reston.org/advocacy/10-lessons-the-arts-teach

Break Squid

Waiting

Going Somewhere

Artist Statment

“We try to have a set of rules that are the intersection between achievable and audacity.”

-Peter Diamandis XPRIZE foundation founder on the oringal Xprize

They are building in order to think

- Tim Brown

Making things has always been a part of the human experience. We, as a society, have lost the collective skills that used to be part of daily life and we have relegated making and repair objects to a select group of people. We have become distant from how things are made and maintained.

We are highly dependent upon objects but these objects are functionally become abstract and intangible to us. The internet and software exist in the “cloud” ever prevalent in our lives but they do not exist in the physical world.

My work is about making and doing, even if my objects don’t. I like ideas that take a physical form that is, things that you can see, touch, smell and maybe taste. My work is a response to our social disengagement from basic craft and trade. My work is meant to excite the imagination.

If you can't open it, you don't own it.

I have seen the Maker's bill of rights,

Get it here.

and that lead me to Platform21's repair Manifesto

Get it here.


and the good folks over at iFixit performed some magic and...
Poof!

Get it here.

Getting there...

More from earlier,
it's starting to come together.

I might change the position of the legs.

Pipe Squid

Scrapping... again

I have started on a diesel/steam punk... robot or war machine?

So far I have legs and the back side of the body.

Not a bad start.

Gifts (2)

I made this table as a prototype, an accent table with a wine rack on the bottom. I gave it to a good friend of mine as a wedding gift. I hope she is as happy with it as I am.

Gifts (1)

My sister being the youngest of four rarely got new things, lots of stuff around the house got passed down to her with out much thought.
So for her birthday this year I passed down the bike that was collecting dust in the garage.
Oh right, I gave it a face lift.
(Some how I forgot to take the before pictures.)

Life is in the Details.

I replaced the break lines and what not to make it work as best as I could. Give more time and something resembling a plan, it would look sweet if the spokes were also black.

Crappy Plastic Cases

So I got this sander and it came with a crappy case.
The only thing that fits in is the one sander.

Just need to get rid of the divider.

With it gone I can get two in and it is not taking up space.

Flying Machine...

I am currently working on
THIS!!!

"Flying Machine" inspired by the Hiller Flying Machine (VZ-1 Pawnee).
It's a 4 h.p. Craftsmen lawn mower engine mounted on to a fiberglass (and foam armature) with steel.

I glassed the steel on to the foam armature with lots of shrink wrap to hold it in place.

I still need to make a "propeller" and give the engine a tune up and once over.
More body work needs to be done as well glassing as well as bondoing and the paint job that will finish it.

No, I do not expect it to fly I do however what it to feel like it might at any second lift of the ground. I will be satisfied with it shaking and making lots of noise with out moving much.

On an other note I am happy that I am remembering to document the building of stuff (sometimes when I think of it). Camera phones help very much.

Pic Drop II

All images taken with 1st generation iphone.

Pic Drop

All taken with 1st Generation iphone.

Art meet Engineering

Monsterbike / Wouter van den Bosch from Novalis on Vimeo.

Pic here.

Tesla Coil

Here is a link to Instructables how build a Tesla Coil... for under $30.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-Tesla-Coil/

I've added it to my list.

Fan for the Dog

I quick wired up a 110 muffin fan to a switch and power cord and mounted it in side the kennel.

While I was putting fans places I gave my 110 buzz box one as well.

Link Dump

So I have had a hand full of windows open and now I'm gonna do something with them.

8 Reasons Engineers Should Spend Their Time in a Machine shop

From: Industrial Interface Engineering Blog

8. Machinists will often need to alter your part to machine some of the features. Work through this together and you’ll both be happier.

7. When you first bring your drawing to the machine shop, it’s common to scribble notes and explain what’s “not that critical.” This is a valuable exercise, but take the time to alter the drawing in your design software before giving it back to the machine shop.

6. For many parts, the machining costs are 5X or 10X the cost of the raw materials. Planning with a machinist can reduce the material costs.

5. When you send your part to be machined, you will (hopefully) get the exact part you drew. Great, except that your part needed 4 unique tooling setups and 15 different bits. Walk through this process with the machinist.

4. Often, adjusting relatively unimportant features of your part will make it half as difficult to machine.

3. You can draw a lot of things in Pro/E and SolidWorks that you can’t make in the real world.

2. Machinists know more about machining parts than you do. Say it with me … Machinists know more about machining parts than you do.

1. Learn from Machinists. They have made thousands of parts and seen amazing design solutions. They always have creative input.

55 Great Sites For Woodworkers

Haven't looked at all 55 sites but the ones I have seen I like.

100 Science Blogs

Well its more like 91 blogs and 9 podcasts.

Here is a quick break down

11 Tech Science

10 Skeptic, Neuroscience, and Green Science

9 Life, Health Science and Science News

8 Scientific Debate and Science Study

7 Teaching Science

and

9 Podcasts

thanks to abbi for that link

So I think I might be able to shut now my computer now with out fear... maybe.

Tatra T-87

I have been working at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts since October and one of the best things in the collection is the is the Tatra T-87 sedan.

Image Link

I get more questions about the car than an other "work" in the museum, so I did some digging for information about the car. So here is what I know it was designd 1936 and put in to production through to 1950 and around 3,000 where made. It has a reare mounted air cooled V8 engine with the gas cap under the hood in the front. The Czechoslovakian made car was popular with the German Officers in WWII but Hitler banned it after two many officers where killed driving it.

Rumor has it that the battery and stater motor have been removed from the car at the MIA but it came with a crank start along with many other goodies like extra spark pugs and an oil can.

Take a look a what Jay Leno has to say about his.




http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z9132/Tatra-T87.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T87