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Why I paint spirals

In: Conceptual Art, Conceptual Art Examples, Conceptual Art Theory, Inspiration

Spirals are one of my favorite ways to compose pictures. Here is how I explain what it is about them I love so much.

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away; I took Geometry. Like most of the other ninth graders in my class, I found it to be a refreshing diversion from arithmetic and equations (otherwise known as “Math”), and in getting to know and draw shapes, I was introduced to the spiral, properly. We had these nifty graphing calculators, black and brown screens and spirals would animate right out of the axes once the correct equation was entered - though by this time, bringing equations back to the shapes was a brilliant way to rekindle my fading interest in math. And then, there was the geometric theorem (I can’t find a reference) that stated that “all spirals are similar,”  as depending on the dimensions on the axes on which they are mapped, they can be made to look exactly like one another, even if arising from very different equations. So if the shape is a spiral, no matter how it looks, it’s just like every other spiral. cool.

It wasn’t long after this that I began to draw spirals. I could manage to draw a straight line, but drawing a spiral became effortless. The trick I found was that …

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SPREAD proposal for Site Santa Fe

In: Conceptual Art, Conceptual Art Examples, Studio

Site Santa Fe announced in November that they would begin a microfunding initiative called SPREAD, which gives artists in all disciplines the chance to compete for cash based on proposed uses for it. On January 1, 2011, the inaugural SPREAD applications were due. Here I share my contribution.

Project Summary 200 Words

Twitterscapes are images composed of pixels that derive their color and position directly from “tweets” on the popular social network Twitter. They are created by an online program that obtains the data and breaks it down, character for character, into colors chosen by that user to be a part of his/her profile. In their current iteration, Twitterscapes are derived from the public timeline and are titled by day and time created, as they are effectively social media snapshots of that very moment. My SPREAD proposal is to use Twitterscapes to create a live dialogue between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, via Twitter. The physical piece will exist in two installation areas, one in each city, and will comprise of a screen or projection, support equipment, and instructions: to send a tweet on Twitter including a particular word with a hash mark in front of it (called a hash tag), whereby the program will recognize these tweets and show them in Twitterscape format, in the other city, live, in real time. The result will be a cascade of colors and pixels created by human beings, exchanged back and forth; visible at the installation sites and online.

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Exhibit: Infomatic Aesthetic at Flying Star Cafe

In: Conceptual Art, Conceptual Art Examples, Conceptual Art Theory, Exhibitions

Five very recent abstract paintings in Latex are now hanging at the Flying Star in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. The artwork selected for this show fits the "Infomatic Aesthetic" my latex paintings often follow.

I’m pleased to have just returned from installing five paintings in the Downtown Albuquerque Flying Star Cafe. Not only is the location frequented by thousands of people in a month but its decor is retro-modern, complete with bright colors and high ceilings. I’ve never hung my artwork anywhere like it, but I have to say it looks fan-tabulous. The show will be up for three months, so the exposure it will bring to my aesthetic will be invaluable.

The work at Flying Star includes Diptych, Sometimes We Know Differently (we don’t forget), Untitled, and two new paintings without images on this website: Scare and Blue Day. Blue Day is a diptych of the same dimensions of Sometimes We Know Differently and Scare is a progression of the thick application technique also used in Chase. All of this work is done on Latex on Canvas and involves Pixels. I’m noticing growth in the popularity of my “infomatic aesthetic” artwork - the work in this show was picked out directly from their listings on this website, and the new ones were brought along despite having no images and were included for fitting in well with the others.

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