Accretions 15: Ciudad Real, sheet 4 Accretions 12: Berdan Building, sheet 2 Sequences 5: White and Gray and, sheet 1
Accretions 15: Ciudad Real, sheet 4 Accretions 12: Berdan Building, sheet 2 Sequences 5: White and Gray and, sheet 1
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Accretions 1: Bernini's Assunta (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005) Bernini's S. Maria Assunta, Ariccia, Italy
Adjacencies:
Adjacencies 1: Iowa Houses (slideshow) (about 2 minutes), or click-through version. (2005)
Details:
Details 1: Largo Argentina, Rome (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2006)
Explorations:
Explorations 1: Minturnae (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2006)
Permutations:
Permutations 1: Reuss River (2007-)
Sequences:
Sequences 1: Berdan Wood (slideshow) (about 2 minutes), or click-through version. (2005)
Trips:
Trips 1: Toledo to Chicago (2007)
Artist's Statements:
Accretions:
Each work in this series consists of six to ten separate sheets. The first eleven are printed on 13X19 inch matte paper. except for Accretions 6: Niemeyer, Niteroi, which is 13X20. The works beginning with Accretions 12 will require larger paper. For the "Accretions" up to 11, the image on the title sheet is about 8.1 by 6.1 inches. The single images on the next two sheets are about 11.5 by 8.6 inches. The multiple images on subsequent pages are arrayed to occupy the same area as the 11.5X8.6" images, but differently shaped, so some are wider and some are taller. For the "Accretions" starting with 12, sizes vary more, and the image area within a work gets larger with each succeeding sheet.
Accretions 2: Herculaneum (slideshow), or click-through version. (2005) Herculaneum was a Roman colony whose remains are now surrounded by the modern town of Ercolano, Italy. Herculaneum was destroyed in the same eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD.
Accretions 3: Niemeyer in Brasilia (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005) Oscar Niemeyer's Memorial dos Povos Indígenas. A museum of indigenous art.
Accretions 4: Cathedral, Brasilia (slideshow), (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005) Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
Accretions 5: Corbu in Rio (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005) Le Corbusier's Ministry of Education and Health (1936), Rio de Janeiro
Accretions 6: Niemeyer, Niteroi (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005) Oscar Niemeyer's Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi, Brazil
Accretions 7: Hong Kong (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005)
Accretions 8: Pagoda and Walls, Xian (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005) Xian, China; the last sheet shows the Little Goose Pagoda
Accretions 9: Shanghai (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005)
Accretions 10: Forbidden City and Lama Temple, Beijing (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2006)
Accretions 11: The Great Wall at Huanghuacheng (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2006)
Accretions 12: Berdan Building (slideshow) (about 1.5 minutes), or click-through version. (2006) This building in Toledo, Ohio, was vacant when these photographs were taken, August 6. 2004.
Accretions 13: Añover de Tajo (slideshow) (about 1.5 minutes), or click-through version. (2006) Two abandoned churches in or near the town of Añover de Tajo, which is near Toledo, Spain.
Accretions 14: Toledo (slideshow) (about 1.5 minutes), or click-through version. (2006) Toledo, Spain.
Accretions 15: Ciudad Real (slideshow) (about 1.5 minutes), or click-through version. (2006) Ciudad Real, Spain.
Accretions 16: Mezquita (slideshow), (about 1.5 minutes), or click-through version. (2007) The Great Mosque, Córdoba, Spain.
Each work in this series consists of a number of separate sheets, 23 to 51 for the three completed thus far, on 13X19 inch matte paper. Most sheets contain more than one image.
The title sheet image is about 6.5 inches wide. The diptychs are about 10.5 inches wide; the triptychs about 16.5 inches wide. The images were taken in several different towns and rural areas of Iowa, Mason City, Iowa Falls, Marshalltown, and Cedar Rapids among them.
Adjacencies 2: Iowa Highway (slideshow) (about 2 minutes), or click-through version. (2005)
The cover sheet image is about 6.5 inches wide. The diptychs are all about 11 inches wide. The location is US 151, northeast of Cedar Rapids.
Adjacencies 3: Beijing to Chicago (slideshow) (about 4 minutes), or click-through version. (2005)
Except for the first (title) image of the Forbidden City, taken May 2, 2004, these images were taken May 5-6, 2004, on a cab ride to the Beijing airport and then on a nonstop flight from Beijing to Chicago. All images are presented in the order taken, including the fact that on each single page the images are arranged left to right in the order they were taken.
Adjacencies 4: Brazil (slideshow) (about 8.5 minutes), or click-through version. (2007) [The final sheet lists where the images were taken.]
Each work in this series consists of separate sheets, 9.9 X 13.2 inch glossy paper, with the image printed to fill the whole sheet with no border. Each sheet after the first consists of enlarged details of areas of the first (title sheet) image.
Each work in this series consists of separate sheets, 13X19 inch matte paper, one or two images per page. The last page has explanatory text.
Explorations 2: Kraków and Gdansk (slideshow) (about 2 minutes), or click-through version. (2006)
Each of these works is a separate, single sheet of images, grouped together under a common title and differentiated by the numbers that follow the title; together the sheets with a common title present many possible permutations of a fixed number of images.
Permutations 2: Berdan Forest (2007-)
Permutations 3: Pompeii (2007-)
Each of the first four works in this series is a book printed on 11X17 inch glossy paper, folded so that each page is 8-1/2X11 inches. The images are all on the right side. The last page has explanatory text. Sequences 5 is printed on separate sheets of 17X25 inch matte paper, or a few inches wider if bound as a book.
Sequences 2: Shadows in Córdoba (slideshow) (about 0.5 minute), or click-through version. (2005)
Sequences 3: Approaching Cedar Rapids (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005)
Sequences 4: Traffic in East Dubuque (slideshow) (about 1 minute), or click-through version. (2005)
Sequences 5: White and Gray and (slideshow) (about 3.5 minutes), or click-through version. (2006)
At least for the initial works in this series, each records a bicycle trip on one or more large sheets. Each begins with images of the starting locale, and ends with images of the final destination, but most of the images are from rest stops in between, read top to bottom. Each line of images represents a different stop, or in some cases where more than one locale is represented on the same line, two blank spaces separate them.
Statement 4: Permutations
Statement 3
Statement 2
Statement 1
Statements on Specific Works:
Permutations 1: Reuss River
Recent Exhibits and Other Sites:
Upcoming: I have a one-person show at Caro d'Offay Gallery, Chicago, opening June 14, 2008, through August 1. My first one person show opened at Beyond Baroque in the Los Angeles area, on October 19, 2007, and closed December 15, 2007. I had sixteen pieces from Permutations 1: Reuss River in a group show at Flatfile
in Chicago, September 7 through October 26, 2007. Many of my strongest works are available through Ostyn-Newman, whose site does a much better job displaying my work on the Web than I have on this site. Some of my work is also in Saatchi Gallery's online salesroom.
