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.