This is the first gallery show I've done in a long time. With Vedica Gallery and curator Cecilia Federici, I showed a series of interactive pieces that are artworks in their own right but also models for larger public experiences - one of which just installed and the other under fabrication.
In the center of the gallery, we hung Multiple Selves:
The experience of the mask is visually beguiling yet disorienting. It fits with my larger project of persuading us that sight with its grasp of the superficial is misleading. MS requires us to do the work of integrating multiple viewpoints and thus brings to attention the fact that sight lies.
Chromanova is a model for an immersive sundial that tells time through complex changing colorscapes. We installed in on a turntable with a single overhead spotlight to simulate the sun. Visitors would rotate the artpiece to simulate how the sun moves overhead.
Chromanova is the fourth iteration of my concepts for large immersive sundials for public space. The first one was just installed as part of our Stars and Stripes Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Synchrony is a model for a kinetic sculpture that is all about timing and connection to larger forces - wind, momentum, the human body and light. Notice how it casts moving shadows on the ground and moving reflections on surfaces around it, activating a large space as it moves under the control of people grasping it. The goal is to create a colorful, immersive, responsive environment in public spaces entirely with physical forces, light and human energy.
The gallery piece is a working model of a monumental sculpture that we're building. We just finished the process of 3D printing, casting and machining the moving parts. When complete, Synchrony may be the world's first 3D printed and cast kinetic sculpture.
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