Noise for Signal was the title of my 2018 exhibition at the Baahng Gallery in NYC.
An overview of the exhibition can be seen in this video.
This first gallery includes installation shots of the show.
An overview of the exhibition can be seen in this video.
This first gallery includes installation shots of the show.
Progressives everywhere were shattered: How was it possible that a demagogic, thin-skinned, petty — and c’mon, the man is a congenital liar! — how was it possible that this charlatan had been elected president of the United States of America?
Welcome to 1968. Richard M. Nixon won the White House by less than 1 percent of the popular vote. During a 1971 discussion with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, President Richard M. Nixon griped that the members of his cabinet, including a young Donald Rumsfeld, “don’t know what the hell they’re talking about!” This astute observation, along with other salty insights from Oval Office recordings of our most Shakespearean president, provides the dialogue for my 9-and-half minute animation, President: "Why?”
The most recent component of my ongoing project “ . . . and Nixon’s coming”, President: "Why?” was created from approximately 3,600 “degeneration prints,” which I also use in mural-scale installations. The source materials—tiny reproductions of head-shop posters advertised in early-1970s comic books—were originally distorted by cheap printing techniques. My processes push these flaws across the border between recognizable imagery and abstraction, revealing the towering ideals of the ’60s as battered and degraded, yet still beautiful.
Below are samples of the individual frames and variable mural installations.
Welcome to 1968. Richard M. Nixon won the White House by less than 1 percent of the popular vote. During a 1971 discussion with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, President Richard M. Nixon griped that the members of his cabinet, including a young Donald Rumsfeld, “don’t know what the hell they’re talking about!” This astute observation, along with other salty insights from Oval Office recordings of our most Shakespearean president, provides the dialogue for my 9-and-half minute animation, President: "Why?”
The most recent component of my ongoing project “ . . . and Nixon’s coming”, President: "Why?” was created from approximately 3,600 “degeneration prints,” which I also use in mural-scale installations. The source materials—tiny reproductions of head-shop posters advertised in early-1970s comic books—were originally distorted by cheap printing techniques. My processes push these flaws across the border between recognizable imagery and abstraction, revealing the towering ideals of the ’60s as battered and degraded, yet still beautiful.
Below are samples of the individual frames and variable mural installations.
