Installations

Telescope House

2019, wood, camera, monitors, media players, glass, audio speakers

Telescope House is a video construction in the shape of the vernacular structure of the same name. Consisting of three archetypical house-shaped sections, each one larger than the next – as if “telescoping” from one to the other – viewers are invited to peer through one end and interact with it by adjusting a focus knob to move from one image to the other through the houses.

exhibitions:
2020 The Body and Architecture group show, Studio Waveland, Waveland, MS
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Home Movies (Those days to be buried in the air)

2019, wood, monitor, media player, binoculars, tripod, audio speakers

An exploration of distance and intimacy, home movie footage is viewed through binoculars.

exhibitions:
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Still Lifes

2019, wood, monitor, media player, binoculars, audio speakers

A companion piece to Home Movies, close-up images of domestic objects that occasionally come to life are viewed through the wrong-end of a pair of binoculars.

exhibitions:
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Vision Test

2019, wood, monitor, media player, audio speakers

Inspired by visits to the eye doctor and the images seen in the autorefractor, Vision Test plays with the idea of the idealized home and asks the viewer to watch a repeated moment in time, expanded and contracted.

exhibitions:
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Last House

2010, 16:30 loop, 3-channel projection, stereo audio, dimensions variable

When I first moved to Buffalo I was struck by the everyday beauty of the many single-family homes that make up a large part of the city. The iconic image of the house seemed to have endless variation, each a unique instance with its own histories. If houses are containers for our memories, the structures within which so many minor and major domestic events take place, then each week in this city a collective amnesia grows block by block: a city disappears before our eyes. The demolition of these structures – by design or accident – and the speed, indifference, and violence with which it takes place; the transmutations of scale, space, and time – is breathtaking, tragic, and full of contradictions. Last House is an inquiry, part document, part memorial, to this changing built environment.

exhibitions:
2019 as part of myoptic, solo show at Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 TONY 2012, biennial, Syracuse Historical Museum, Syracuse, NY
2011 Time Mutations, group show Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany
2010 Beyond/In Western New York, biennial, Burchfield Penney Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

Night Light

2007, 8-channel installation, monitors, projection, dimensions variable

Images of street lamps and house lights played on CRT monitors surround a projection of Niagara Falls.

exhibitions:
2007 2:2, solo show, Burchfield Penney Arts Center, Buffalo, NY