I had opportunity to collaborate with my good friend Anthony Discenza on the creation of new work made possible through the generosity of BAVC's Rohstoff: [raw material] exhibition. The resulting project, Universal Moments, includes a sound/media installation, a single channel video and a series of 22 prints. Thank you to BAVC, particularly Daniela Delvos for organizing the exhibition and Julie Lantz for providing us with great sound engineering.
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STATEMENT ABOUT THE WORK:
Universal Moments represents the first collaboration between longtime friends and fellow artists Rebeca Bollinger and Anthony Discenza, and reflects the artists’ shared interest in the archive, lists, textual description of visual situations, and the ways in which our memories and perception are filtered through the lens of media representations. The print and video pieces included in this exhibition were constructed from logs of stock and archival footage—the vast archives of which represent a broad range of genres and sources, from comedy, horror, action and romance movies, to commercials, cartoons, newsreels and other historical media. The logs of this material, intended solely as a kind of index to be used in the selection of images for re-purposing in new media content, differ markedly from conventional script- or story-writing. Here, descriptive language is pared down to the bone—the logs employ an almost telegraphic verbal shorthand to produce supposedly neutral descriptions of every shot that makes up the footage. Yet through this extreme reduction of language, slippages and juxtapositions emerge, producing oddly truncated narratives that are at once dreamlike, and at the same time, deeply revealing of underlying cultural assumptions.

UNIVERSAL MOMENTS

Super Pop-Up Shop: A temporary public project conceived and co-curated with Glen Helfand presenting the work of 12 amazing CCA graduate students:
Zarouhie Abdalian
Alex Beckman
Sofia Cordova
Adeleine Daysor
Jay Dion
Hannah Ireland
Dorathy Lye
Brad Menninga
Rebecca Ora
George Pfau
Alex Vikmanis
Jana Willinger

The Pop-Up Shop opened in December 2009 and was located between the Santa House and Applebees at the Alameda Towne Centre. Here are links to the project blog, website and fb page. Also available, Super Pop-Up Shop, the book!
Below are a few of the projects.
Special thanks to Justin Butler at Butler Design.

EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING
Solo exhibition at Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles.
Sept 18 - Oct 23. See Press Release.

2009-2010 RESIDENCY
I'm a recipient of the Dennis Gallagher and Sam Perry Ceramic Residency Program. Thanks Sam and Derek!

Radical Light features an essay by Margaret Morse about my work along with artists Jim Campbell and Alan Rath.