SHOWS & PERFORMANCES
COQUIT GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, JANUARY 2020: KEEP THE EVENT OPEN/TELL ME I DON’T THINK SO - COLLABORATION WITH ALEXIS HUDGINS
Merging practices of writing, drawing, painting and performance into a one-night event at Coquit Gallery. Alexis read from her recent writing project Keep The Event Open while I will drew in tandem - on a kinda junky laptop connected to a video projector - actively listening while generating imagery to accompany Alexis’ text.
Alexis’ project, Keep The Event Open, consists of narrative vignettes that jump from stories recounting the mothering her then-infant daughter while renovating a pre-existing treehouse on the lot of her and her husband’s house in San Diego. My drawings and cartoons imagine scenarios of surreal comic dread in ostensibly banal and everyday circumstances.
THE BOX, LA, AUGUST 2019: GOOD TIMES, PERFORMANCE & COLLABORATION WITH SIMONE FORTI
Photos by Roxie Fuller.
Collaborative performance at The Box. Incorporating movement, drawing, multimedia video installation, casual ventriloquism and poetry all into a conversation about the ethical and psychic incinerator of our political reality.
MCA SANTA BARBARA, MAY 2019: LINK NOT WORKING? READ MORE AFTER THE JUMP
Summer 2018. Collaborating with curator Alex Terry, I developed a one-man do-it-yourself clickbait agency. During two evening events at the MCA Santa Barbara, I set up a wooden booth (similar to The Psychiatric Help 5¢ from Charles Schultz’s ‘Peanuts’) with a video monitor requesting museum patrons to text the garbage on their phones to (323) 673-1791. The texts received would appear on a Google Voice feed, be sent to a printer, and I would subsequently mount a growing collection of photos, screenshots, memes, reminders, stray thoughts, headlines, etc. to sintra with glossy black paint. provocations and headlines would be conjured and scrawled onto each collage, and stapled to the booth, eventually covering it completely.
Left: Link Not Working? Read More After the Jump video monitor text; documentation from August 2, 2018 event. Still Photos by Carly Otness. Video Camera by Jeff Nelson.
PAINTINGS MADE DURING PERFORMANCE:
