I begin with a material object and a thought. At times I get lucky and it’s pure inspiration. Although, much of the time I must experiment like a scientist, which recalls my beginnings of producing and grinding my own pigments for use in painting on canvas.
In recent years I’ve used ready-mades and hacked them to form objects of new thought relationships. Revealing in the doing and outcome, hidden truths, forever unseen if not Art.
Currently I utilize a new human made material with life properties similar to our own, a silly material with growth and expansion properties, in which again, I manipulate to bring forth Art.
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Dipie, 2008
EDUCATION
B.F.A. 2000 Computer
Art, School of Visual Arts, New
York NY
EXHIBITIONS
2007
QCA, Project Diversity
Queens, Repetti Gallery, Long Island City NY
Freaks of Nature,
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx NY
Killer Beez,
Headquarters Studio, New York NY
Taipei Coast Guard,
Barry Room Gallery, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Out Looking In; In
Looking Out: Urbanism NYC, The Painting Center, New York NY
2006
Mother Tongue, Jamaica
Center for arts and Learning, Jamaica NY
New Works, Studio 204,
Crane Street Open Studios & L.I.C. Arts Weekend, L.I.C. NY
2004
Daily Miracles: The
First 25 Years at Flushing Town Hall, Flushing NY
Spring Show, National
Art League, Douglaston NY
Vibrations, Flushing
Town Hall, Flushing NY
2000
Gen Art Summer Arts
Festival, Puck Building Gallery, New York NY
BFA in Computer Art
Thesis Show, Visual Arts Gallery, SVA, New York NY
RESIDENCIES
AWARDED
2007
Taipei
Artist Village, Taiwan
LECTURES
/ TALKS
2007
QCA,
“Hooked”, Interview into the art forms of crochet, Broadcasted by QPTV
Artist
Talk, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Fresco
to Oil Painting Lecture and Workshop, TAV, Taipei, Taiwan
Egg
Tempera Technique and Demonstration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
Old
Master’s Techniques and Materials, National Art League, Douglaston NY