ARCHIVE OF WORKS
2014-2016
See below for a collection of past works.
SOLO GALLERY EXHIBITION
JOY
YEAR: 2015
Joy’s purpose is to spread happiness through art. Each piece strives to make the viewer smile and leave them with a light heart. By relating with the audience through nostalgic subject matter and amusing interactivity, I hope to connect people with their uninhibited childhood creativity. This solo exhibition was my SCAD senior thesis.
Filming and editing by Spencer Wardwell.
Opening reception at Trick 3D Gallery on May 9, 2015
PUPPETS
PROCESSION DE LACOSTE
YEAR: 2016
Procession de Lacoste is a parade of 35 puppets made to honor the culture and characters of the provençal village, Lacoste. The parade originally took place summer of 2016 in Lacoste, and since has traveled to Atlanta & Savannah, Georgia, and even Hong Kong.
THE JOGGERS
YEAR: 2015
The Joggers is a performance art project meant to make people smile and have an honest interaction on the way home from work. Performed in Atlanta, this project was commissioned for the Atlanta Beltline.
EVERYMAN
YEAR: 2015
SIZE: 36" x 12" x 5"
There is so much attention drawn to sociopaths and narcissists on the news and in media that the everyday heroes—teachers, doctors, servicemen and women–go unnoticed. everyman pays homage to these people and allows for them to be in the spotlight. The puppet is no more than a common person attending a gallery show and interacting with other viewers as anyone would.
SCULPTURES
We All Scream for Ice Cream
YEAR: 2015
SIZE: 37” x 49.5” x 20.5”
The tune from an ice cream truck is an amazing thing–it has the ability to stop kids dead in their track, drop everything and burst into a frenzy to find money and get to the curb. The excitement is unparalleled. But as we have gotten older that excitement has been replaced with annoyance or skepticism. The ultimate goal of this piece to to give adults the opportunity to experience that lost excitement and to once again rush to the ice cream truck.
OH SHOOT!
YEAR: 2015
SIZE: 41.5” x 9.5” x 9.5”
MATERIALS: pedestal, broken object
Ideas of the formal art world have ingrained this idea the that art is something that is holy, too precious for us to touch. I believe the opposite. With Oh shoot! I want to flip that idea on its head. When the viewer approaches the piece the initial reaction is worry and dread for the broken art, until they read the title of the work and a sense of realization occurs, revealing the humor of the work. Oh shoot! is a process piece in which, during construction, I always had a positive mindset, investing my own joy and happiness into the piece. Throughout the run of the show the bits of broken shards are take away pieces in hope to spread that positive energy to the viewer.
INSTALLATIONS
THE CHEVRON AND THE HANDLEBAR
YEAR: 2015
SIZE: 52” x 15” x 15”
The Chevron and the Handlebar has one basic goal–to make the viewer smile. The clean white pedestal is meant to symbolize the way art is treated nowadays–we think art is holy and unworthy of touch and interaction. But it is not until the viewer interacts with it that the art appears. The art of the piece does not exist in the mustaches, it exists in the interaction between the two people as they line up the mustaches with each other and have a laugh. It is argued that these interactions we have with others is more art than a thing on a pedestal that someone deemed as “art.”
CONSTELLATIONS
YEAR: 2015
SIZE: 22” x 22”
Constellations is an installation that is playing on the power of a title. In the making of these pictures I was trying to make them look bland and painfully ordinary so that as the viewer walks along the wall they breeze by the work. Until they reach the tags, which in the material reads “constellations taken from Morgan Freeman’s freckles.” At that point there is a humorous realization that makes the viewer want to revisit the pictures with new information.
ROAD TRIP
YEAR: 2014
SIZE: 205” x 73” x 70”
With the surge of the automotive presence in American culture road trips became a symbol of the United States. Still most Americans take road trips as family vacations, traveling the great American highways. This installation is honoring that symbol and also honoring Lasseter's family car and all the road trips he and his family took in it. The work allows for viewers to relate to what they interact with on a personal level as they sit in the packed car and reminisce on their personal trips.
