Society of Stickpeople

A last minute contact facilitated by my page on Rhizome.org led to a quick exhibition of Society of Stickpeople – A New Beginning (dvd version). If you’re near Grand Rapids during the short exhibition window, check it out (and let me know how it looks – I won’t be able to be there in person). Official announcement follows. Upgrade/Downgrade Open Concept Gallery is excited to present Upgrade/Downgrade, a multimedia exhibition demonstrating the experimentation and opposing relationship of nature versus or [Read More...]

In October of 2008 I met the Central Florida artist known as KYLE, and Gloria Capozzi at a UCF Art Alumni Association meeting. After an enjoyable discussion, they invited me to join the RS21 group they had started: The Research Studio in the 21st Century- February 5th Maitland Art Center’s (MAC) family of artists , including faculty, staff, students and associates will depart from the types of tradition-based art forms associated with MAC and create new, cutting-edge art works and [Read More...]

With an emphasis on the conceptual underpinnings of this series, I reworked the Society of Stickpeople to focus on sustainability and the impact of what we build and how we build it. A New Beginning includes a video capture of the new interactive installation of the Society, which debuted at the Maitland Art Center in 2009.

These prints are an attempt to capture, in one frame, the entire “evolution” of a population of stickmen and stickwomen. Experimenting with the digital equivalent of Muybridge’s and Marey’s chronophotography has led to these fascinating, mysterious works.