Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Red Hankie - Colaboration with AA Bronson



In the spring of 2003 my friend AA Bronson suggested we collaborate on a piece. AA was envisioning a red hankie and I suggested painting one while thinking of the different ways AA had affected my life. The resulting piece was in AA's solo show that year at John Connolly and now lives with some collectors out in Long island....




Saturday, January 17, 2015

Four Albums by Sparks

#1 in Heaven

Propaganda

Terminal jive

Kimono My House













































In 2005 these were in a show at MoMA/PS1

Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity


Curated by Bob Nickas and Steve Lafreniere.






Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left


Pencil on Vellum 1997 14 x 11 inches

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols


Needlepoint 1999 24 x 20 inches

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 1999

The roof is side one, the floor is side two and I dripped plaster while each song played.......This was from my first solo show at DEREK ELLER in 1999....

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust 1997

 This is from my first solo show at ESSO gallery 1997. I played a CD of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust in a dark room and pointed my camera at the spot between the 2 speakers where the sound was optimum. As the Cd began I opened the shutter and left it open for the duration of the album....
Silver Gelatin print Mounted on Aluminum in Artist's Frame 10 x 10 x 1  ed 1/3 

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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...