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Every once in a while I will be struck by a wave of longing or an ambiguous feeling of wistfulness; a vague nostalgia triggered by certain stimuli—a whiff of a familiar fragrance worn by a passing stranger; the song of a mockingbird. The stimuli are not really tied to specific memories, but to a hazy, dreamlike past only accessible through the evocation of the senses. This show seeks to capture the melancholy and serenity that is elicited by these particular sensations.
"Sense Memory" is currently on view at Nucleus Portland.
>> The Atlantic magazine, May 2017
Available as a print here
A selection of work from 2016.
>> Medium.com, January 2016
>> Medium.com, January 2016
>> Bartkira show at Gallery Nucleus
Inspired by Bartkira (Akira + The Simpsons)
Available as a magnet here
Available as a magnet here
>> Chipotle's "Boorito" campaign, Halloween 2016
>> Crazy 4 Cult 10 at Gallery 1988
Inspired by Spirited Away
A selection of work from 2015.
>> One Page comic show at Roq La Rue Gallery
>> Idiot Box 2 at Gallery 1988
Inspired by Bob's Burgers
>> Scientific American, June 2015
>> Scientific American, July 2015
>> Bad Dads, a tribute to Wes Anderson at Spoke Art Gallery
Inspired by Fantastic Mr. Fox
>> Crazy 4 Cult 9 at Gallery 1988
Inspired by It Follows
Inspired by Dungeons & Dragons
A selection of work from 2014.
>> The New Republic magazine, February 17th, 2014
>> Adventure Time show at Gallery 1988
More photos here.
>> The Subtle Art of Pop-Culture, Gallery 1988's 10-Year Anniversary show
Inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer
>> Ghostbusters traveling exhibit with Gallery 1988
>> Chipotle's Cultivating Thought Author Series
Based on Jonathan Safran Foer's "Two-Minute Personality Test"
>> Merriweather Post Pavilion, July 26th & 27th
>> Suggestivism: Chronology at Copro Gallery
>> Joss Whedon x Gallery 1988
Inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A selection of work from 2013.
>> The New York Times Book Review, January 27th
>> Suggestivism at MondoPOP Gallery
>> The Bad Robot Art Experience at Gallery 1988
Inspired by LOST
>> GALAXY at Telegraph Gallery. Prints available here.
>> Crazy 4 Cult 7 at Gallery 1988
Inspired by The Thing
COSMOS is an exploration of the elements that together make up a personal universe. It is about the tension between light and dark and the consequences of that struggle. It is the creation of the universe, of celestial bodies, and of planet Earth as a metaphor for the development and evolution of an identity.
This show contains a few visual callbacks to my past shows, Into the Unknown and The End. All of these shows have been semi-autobiographical and are therefore loosely related, so they share similar symbolic elements.
COSMOS was a solo exhibit at WWA Gallery in Culver City, CA in October of 2013. It is dedicated to my family.
Photo credit: WWA Gallery
A selection of work from 2012.
>> Bad Dads, a tribute to Wes Anderson at Spoke Art Gallery
Inspired by Moonrise Kingdom
>> Crazy 4 Cult 6 at Gallery 1988
Inspired by Chiaki Kuriyama of Battle Royale and Kill Bil
>> Puffed Shoggoths, an HP Lovecraft tribute zine
>> There's Always Money in the Banana Stand, a tribute to Arrested Development at Gallery 1988
>> Suggestivism at Bold Hype Gallery
>> Suspense and Gallows Humor, a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock at Gallery 1988
Inspired by Psycho
>> Pokémon Battle Royale at Light Grey Art Lab
>> Is This Thing On? 2 at Gallery 1988
Inspired by Louis CK
>> Bits in Multiples of 8, a video game art zine
Inspired by The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. series
>> Gallery 1988 x Adult Swim at Gallery 1988
Inspired by Childrens Hospital
A selection of work from 2011.
>> Taetrum et Dulce at MondoPOP Gallery
>> Taetrum et Dulce at MondoPOP Gallery
>> A tribute to Adventure Time from The Autumn Society
>> Bad Dads, a tribute to Wes Anderson at Spoke Art Gallery
>> Crazy 4 Cult 5 at Gallery 1988
Inspired by Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
>> Terra Obscura with The Upper Six Hundreds
>> Is This Thing On? at Gallery 1988
"The End" is about love and heartbreak, destruction and regrowth. It showcases the melodrama of a crumbling relationship over the backdrop of the apocalypse. The focus is on desolation at a smaller, more intimate scale rather than at the world-wide level, but the dissolution of a personal connection and the end of the world play out as parallel events, accompanied by the heightened emotions and uncertainty that they both elicit.
"The End" was a solo exhibit at WWA Gallery in Culver City, CA in September of 2011.
"Into the Unknown" focuses on one character going through a journey and exploring the strange and mysterious, represented by outer-space. He eventually travels through an environment reminiscent of viscera, so his adventure also becomes a metaphor for self-discovery. The entire journey represents an attempt to figure out the answers to life's questions by venturing through uncharted territory as well as looking inward and trying to discover how one fits into the larger scheme of the universe.
"Into the Unknown" was exhibited in the project space of WWA Gallery in May of 2010.
