Amanda Lear - I Am A Photograph

In spring 2001 I was in a show in Belgium curated by Jimi Dams called "Not A Lear" Jimi chose a piece tangentially related to Amanda Lear and when the show came to NYC my piece was broken in transit so the curator choose a new piece that I was to deliver to the gallery the day of the opening,  tuesday Sept 11.  

Amanda Lear will be forever associated with 9/11 in my mind so to mark the 10th anniversary of this experience, I spent much of 9/11/11 with a camera on a tripod in a dark room. The lens was focused on the spot between 2 speakers and Amanda Lear's "I am a photograph" was playing....everytime the song began I opened the shutter and when the song ended the shutter closed...

Scent Photographs From My First NYC Solo Show @ Esso Gallery 1997

In my first NYC solo show I exhibited photographs of ethereal experiences. These 8 photographs are of various scents floating in they air. From top to bottom they are..... Eau Sauvage,  Fahrenheit,  Egoiste, Turqouise,  Patou,  Grey Flannel,  Angel,  Sublime . All Silver gelatin prints 14 x 11 inches. If you'd like to see more of my experiential photos of scent and sound along with some renderings of these in needlepoint check out my Flikr album here

My career, so far....

   Erik Hanson made the decision when he was  8 years old to move to New York and pursue a career as an artist. With 7 NYC solo shows under his belt and inclusion in group shows from MoMA/PS1 in NYC to Museum Boijman’s Van Beuningen in Rotterdam he has begun to live out his dream. Hanson was recently mentioned in People magazine as an artistic inspiration to George W. Bush. As a  contributor to “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” Hanson spoke on a panel at Strand Bookstore in March on his multifaceted career as an artist. In the past year Hanson performed in Rainer Ganahl’s “Comme des Marxist” at White Columns, NYC and Ron Athey’s “Gifts of the Spirit" at Participant Inc, NYC…A lifelong Roxy music fan, Hanson reports that when he heard Bryan Ferry singing “Love is the Drug” as a high school student in Minneapolis, it was as if he were receiving a personal message from an alternate plane of existence, he promptly went out and bought tickets to see the iconic band at the equally iconic Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and so lost his rock concert virginity to Roxy Music…..there’s NOTHING….more than this…..!

More Than This

Justin Irvine of Stubbs and Wootton

My portrait of  Justin Irvine, Associate Creative Director @ Stubbs and Wootton

"Checkin' You Out" & "The Look of Love".......2 Songs About Looking

Two Older works, from 1995...Checkin' You out and The Look of love ...... silver gelatin prints 7 inches square . These were made by focusing a camera lens on the spot between 2 speakers where the sound was optimum and leaving the shutter open for the duration of the song.....each around 2 minutes, fifty seconds....

In A Lonely Place

The Articles

Oil on Canvas  28 x 20 inches

SEX PISTOLS - ANARCHY IN THE UK

…this was the first 45 I ever bought…..I loved these guys before I ever heard them…..and in a sense, my taste was defined at that moment….Ive expanded to like other things but I still think these guys are the best band ever in so many ways