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Title: Light No. 3
Size: 8′-0″ x 4′-0″ x 4′-0″
Media: Fluorescent Tubes, Colored Borosilicate Glass, Metal Conduit, Concrete, Wire, Paint
This is my first “big” light sculpture and it will be featured in an upcoming show in Williamsburg, stay tuned for details.
Title: Light No. 2
Size: 24″ x 12″ x 6″
Media: Fluorescent Tubes, Cement, Wire, Paint
When: Friday, June 4th, 2010
Time: 6-9pm
Where: Studio 46 Headquarters
Come on out for Art, Drinks, Food, and People. I will be showing some of my newest creations as well as some of my older works. Let me know if you want to come out and I will send you my contact information.
Well, I didn’t win, but here is my submission to DOT’s “reNEWable Times Square” RFP. I’m guessing it is okay to post this now since I did not receive a phone call on Tuesday. Enjoy!
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The brief asks for a temporary paving design for the pedestrian plazas between 42nd and 47th streets on Broadway. The design enhances the electric space of Times Square and acts as a unifying design element for the ocular cacophony that is Times Square. Using simple components, a grid, primary colors, and squares, the result is highly complex. Intended to be evocative of pixels, tetris shapes, and Piet Mondrian’s “Broadway Boogie Woogie,” this design plays to the automatic nature of the Manhattan Grid. The 5’x5’ module is based on the standard sidewalk flag size in New York City and is aligned to the Manhattan Grid. By using this module, my design takes the existing design of the surrounding sidewalks and transforms it into a playful sea of multicolored shapes. It will also be interesting to those high above in the surrounding office towers as the pavement would vibrate as the tourists below reveal and conceal different portions of the design.
UPDATE: DOT announced the winner. Congratulations Molly Dilworth!
Title: Eumenides on the Horizon
Size: 17″ x 46″
Material: Enamel on a Salvaged Door
The Eumenides, otherwise know as the The Furies, are Greek Deities who are the personification of anger and vengeance the underworld has towards the world of the living.
Title: The Kelpie
Size: 24″ x 44″
Medium: Enamel on Masonite
The Kelpie is a mythical creature that takes the form of a wet horse to draw children and weary travelers near them. If one tries to pet or mount the horse, the skin gets extremely sticky and the Kelpie drags the person into the darkest depths of the nearest body of water. I think the moral to the story is to keep your hands off another man’s horse…
UPDATE: They apparently call the Kelpie a “Nuggle” on the Orkney Islands. Gaelic has some awfully cute words for dreadful monsters.
Title: Lighting Study #1
Size: Approx 48″x48″x12″
Medium: Mixed
This is a manifestation of a lighting Idea I had about five years ago while still in architecture school. It has had many false starts and has mutated over the years, but I am really excited about this new direction. The composition is made of two T12 fluorescent lamps, concrete, and colored lamp filters. While it is rough around the edges, it serves as an excellent prototype for where I want to take my designs.
Title: Contemplations of the Penultimate Dodo
Size: 48″ x 30″
Medium: Enamel on Masonite
Titles: Contemplations of the Penultimate Dodo Studies 1-4
Size: 12″ x 18″ each
Medium: Enamel on Masonite
Title: Tectonic Drift
Size: 36″ x 36″
Medium: Enamel, Concrete, Plexiglass
