The Grill of Steel is a Dj booth/hamburger grill made out of scavenged materials found at the SF Dump

Check out Dumped in the garbage culture section for more images of art I created during my residency at Recology.

Working on A Dream is a new installation about with the “American Dream”, the objects we cherish and the labor invested in the pursuit of the American Dream. This piece was created with objects from my personal journey and imagery derived from my literal dreams.

CREAM, from the top
Surfacing talent from 2009 Master of Fine Arts programs in the Bay Area
@ Marin Moca March 20- April 18

• Friday, March 12 8-12pm
  Million Fishes: “CIT – All Bottled up“, Closing Party
• March 5th – June 12
  Di Rosa Preserve: Opening TBA
• March 20th – April 20
  Marin Museum for Contempory Art: “Cream” – Opening Reception – March 20 5-7pm
• April 18th
  Marin Headlands Center for the Arts: Spring Open House”BArnstorm” (Solo Show-Don’t Tell anyone) 5-late @ 961 Barn
• Mid April – (TBA)
  SF Chronicle Building & Intersection for the Arts: Group Show – Opening TBA
• May 8- June 26
  Mad World: Messages to the Future| Galeria De La Raza- Opening TBA
• May 14-15
  Recology AIR solo show- Opening Friday 6-8pm, Saturday 12-5pm
• May 16
  Graduate Fellows Group Show | Marin Headlands- Opening Sunday, TBA
• June 10 – July 28
  Joan Mitchell foundation grant recipient  show| CUE Art foundation- Opening June 10

“You Gotta Move.” is on view as part of the MFA Selections Show at the DiRosa Preserve. Come out and visit. Panel discussion on April 29th visit DiRosa website for details.

Special Thanks to Mabel Negrete (editing) and Mike Murnane (Video)

This is a Paid Programming infomercial for the “Gold Standard”. This promo was made for the Hard Economic Times installation at New house Gallery in Ross California January 2010.

HARD ECONOMIC TIMES
January 7 -February 17
New House Gallery
39 Fernhill Ave. Ross, CA 94957

I got a new installation coming up in Ross California. All new work that reflects on living in our current economy. Lots of new pieces including: You Gotta Move., Holing up, Gold Standard, and an incarnation of  the 1/64 scale expandable universe of Drive thru Paradise.

Video was filmed, co-directed and co-edited by Mabel Negrete.

The Rat Hunter 3000 is a portable unit designed for long hours of vermin surveillance and eradication.

This is a portable radio transmitter I’m developing with all the essentials for mobile broadcasting.

Closed Case with latches that are lock ready for security

Open: parts include: Fm Transmitter, Dipole antenna, I-podX2, Flask, 4 Channel mixer, Electrovoice microphone, mic stand, power strip, i-pod charger, cables, and variable speed light refraction unit aka. discoball

Fully opened ready for transmission.

Variable Speed Light Refraction Unit (detail)

I’ve been researching the workings of basic consumer technologies lately. This is a Mr. Coffee that I made from the guts of discarded one. I hopped up the Plumbing, filtration and delivery to to suit my own needs, as well as adding a “coffee pellet dispenser”.