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Xerography

anemptytextlline

November 15, 2016
Scroll Improvisation

anemptytextlline

June 28, 2013
Inscriptions

anemptytextlline

August 27, 2018
Meditations on 50 Objects

anemptytextlline

July 3, 2017
#Selfie

anemptytextlline

January 17, 2014
nmnmnmnmnm.com

anemptytextlline

August 14, 2016
Empire of Lightning

anemptytextlline

November 15, 2016
Puzzle Pieces

anemptytextlline

February 27, 2014
Mintabox.com

anemptytextlline

July 19, 2012
Waves

anemptytextlline

November 15, 2016
The Experimentalist

anemptytextlline

June 7, 2017
Toolbar Scrolls

anemptytextlline

August 10, 2016
A Curious Inventory

anemptytextlline

October 17, 2015
Telepresence

anemptytextlline

August 10, 2016
Madeleine Stowe

anemptytextlline

July 16, 2018
Solgonda.com

anemptytextlline

April 23, 2013
백합호 - The Fleur-de-Lis, Collaboration with Jio Bae

anemptytextlline

November 29, 2014
Experiments

anemptytextlline

May 11, 2014
Trompe-l'œil & Baroque Paintings

anemptytextlline

October 17, 2015
Yellow: Pop Up Exhibition with Jiemei Lin

anemptytextlline

July 3, 2017
Agnus Hominis

anemptytextlline

September 5, 2015
We Care About You and Your Memories

anemptytextlline

August 26, 2018
Box Paintings

anemptytextlline

November 30, 2014
The Ambassador

anemptytextlline

February 8, 2016

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I am an intermedia artist living and working in eastern Washington state. I grew up in Ohio where I had a short career as a recording artist before returning to the visual arts. My visual art now makes use of a diverse background in web design, music and painting to make works that are part-painting and part-new media installations. I also continue to write songs that balance acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Read more…

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I haven’t made much progress on Chinese in the l

I haven’t made much progress on Chinese in the last few years but I have maintained the very basics thanks to somewhat regular practice sessions with an online tutor (we don’t speak much Chinese at home). An elementary proficiency is vital in China where few people (relative to the general population) are comfortable speaking English. Last year I was really beginning to lose motivation, so this opportunity to exhibit in Shenzhen came at a great time. If you are interested in learning Mandarin DM me I love to talk about it!

Caravaggio-inspired painting that is not about Mar

Caravaggio-inspired painting that is not about Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk’s proposed cage match. and also not about the Barbie movie. Enjoying how (in person) this area of negative space/color field vibrates against the subjects.

Phantom Limbs⁠
oil and spray paint on canvas⁠
60’ x 54’ ⁠
2023⁠
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Monarch⁠
oil on custom panel with found stereo ⁠
20” x 20”⁠
2023⁠
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If you need to find a broken washing machine in Sh

If you need to find a broken washing machine in Shenzhen I got the sweet hookup. 😂 I had Enclave gallery staff take me on a field trip to a dump with old appliances. I was so excited that the gallery was into this idea. it is my favorite piece in the show. I also made sound for it while I was doing my laundry at the hotel. It’s a washing machine concerto and it sounds just like you think it would sound. ⁠up at Enclave Contemporary in Shenzhen until September
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It’s Still Untitled
oil and spray paint on unstretched canvas, trash bag, thread, XLR cables, paracord, emergency blanket, washing machine, sound ⁠
2023⁠
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Game this Algorithm⁠ oil and spray paint on canv

Game this Algorithm⁠
oil and spray paint on canvas⁠
48” x 60” ⁠
2023

Been looking at Caravaggio paintings, the way they give corporeal form to spiritual struggle. It probably sounds extreme but during the advent of AI I think we are beginning a spiritual struggle for what it means to be human, to exist in a body. You can’t really participate in the privatized internet without being “objectified” in some way.

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Disciple⁠ oil on custom panel with found stereo

Disciple⁠
oil on custom panel with found stereo ⁠
24” x 24”⁠
2023⁠

Found objects and in particular media devices have a utility beyond the optical. Because they have a three-dimensional form their presence within a digital image like this one helps to assert the flatness of the adjacent substrate. The found objects in my works also reveal the scale of the work as it’s represented by a digital image. Why not use a stereo as a standard unit of measurements for paintings?

the found object gets elevated. But the painting also gets demoted, or at least it resists being demoted and this resistance is interesting to me. paintings are containers but all things in a way have desires. A soup can wants to be opened a painting wants to be experienced, to be photographed. A radio hates to be so quiet.
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Sound Waves Set Off A Starry Accompaniment ⁠ Enc

Sound Waves Set Off A Starry Accompaniment ⁠
Enclave Contemporary Shenzhen, China ⁠
on view 7-30 through 9-03 ⁠
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It's been a huge privilege getting to show here. Enclave is a contemporary art gallery within a veritable mini culture empire founded by a famous Chinese poet Zhang Er. The amount of care and concern that Zhang Er and his staff put into this exhibition was inspiring and at times even unbelievable. I have been so spoiled! My first solo show in China and it's hard to imagine working with a more knowledgable, capable and attentive group of people. There was a lot of interest in my work and the turnout for the talk (actually a heady bilingual panel discussion) was good. My Mandarin is barely good enough to be useful but it turns out this is considerably better than nothing. We all learned a lot through this process. 我们一起加油！(We strive together). ⁠🤘💓
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Folds ⁠ oil on panel with found stereo ⁠ 40”

Folds ⁠
oil on panel with found stereo ⁠
40” x 40” ⁠
2023⁠
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Thanks @jiemeilin for some studio shots 🙏 —

Thanks @jiemeilin for some studio shots 🙏
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