Free Beer
After living in Austin, TX, for some time, I met many in the art world over many a free beer. I began to notice how the faces were familiar. Attendants seemed to be fellow poor artists, and I began wondering how many of us were in attendance for a free drink. My attention then turned to a small group of three to four middle-aged men with beer guts that I spotted at every opening. They were not at the openings to be patrons, either. One evening I overheard their discussion of what openings to hit that night based on what nibbles and beverages they could glean for free.
video from FREE BEER Installation
Odessa/Memphis, TN
April 2011
special thanks to Lazy Magnolia for Keg Sponsorship
Channel 1
Channel 1
Installed for the artist's B.A. show at the University of Sioux Falls, Channel 1 was constructed of paper mache, paint, cardboard, found objects, plastic, plaster, and aluminum.
Under the intellectual guidance of Marshall McLuhan's writings and the aesthetic influence of Edward Keinholz, the installtion intended to question domestic habits of passivity as seen in the attention to the television medium.
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2008.01 TV Dinner.JPG
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2008.01 TV Dinner seated figure with food plate.JPG
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2008.01 TV Dinner nintendo player.JPG
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2008.01 TV Dinner seated figure from behind.JPG
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2008.01 TV Dinner Television.JPG
This Land
This Land is Your Land,
This Land is My Land,
This Land was made for you
and Me was installed in the FFA gallery at the University of Memphis in 2010.
The piece dealt with the constructs of home, nomadic lifestyles, and the social injustice of land stripped from native tribes as it relates to the individual's lack of home. It directly correlates to the Native land surrounding the artist's birthplace.
Postcard elements were available for the viewer to take away; the Map of Indian Land exists in a screen printed edition of five. The tipi is handsewn and the environment is conscructed of found materials
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Tipi
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campfire
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campfire area
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Map of Indian Land
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Homeland postcard takeaways
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Homeland postcard takeaways
