A self portrait, probably completed in 2004, was paired with two box kite models made of prints from my Faces of Chaos series. This piece accompanied two larger box kites at my first solo exhibition, Process & Influence, and served as a conceptual link between my creative and technical processes and the resulting artifacts.

Owl King and Chinese Warrior got a dip in water, tea, and coffee, were hung out to dry, and eventually became two box kites. Here are some process images:

Every finished piece that is run through the printer or sees time onscreen is the result of a long chain of development, much of it unplanned. And that process is important to me as an artist – sometimes more important than the finished work itself. In preparation for Process & Influence, my first solo exhibition (documented here), I tried to think of a good way to convey a bit of the creative and technical process that underlies a lot of [Read More...]

Process & Influence was my first solo exhibition, and ran from February 16th – March 25th, 2011 at the Eissey Campus Art Gallery at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Select Exhibition Views Concept This image is scanned from notes I took during my residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2008, and served as the catalyst for the conceptual development of this exhibition. My overall goal was to give a glimpse into my entire creative process, [Read More...]

I was recently interviewed by Gretel Sarmiento, a freelance writer based in South Florida, for an article on my solo show,Process & Influence. This is one of my favorite excerpts: “At 30, Selikoff already has accomplished a lot: a steady job that funds his artistic work, a marriage of four years, two cats (Michael and Olive), a hippie look (never easy to pull off) and now his very own exhibit.” You can read the whole article in the March 2011 [Read More...]