Wrong with the picture
The failure of the international aid system is finally getting some critical attention, prompting me to repost this 2006 project.
Free Sign Project
What does "free" mean today? Free to own? Free to borrow? Free to work? Free to capitalize? Free to liberate?
Payday
Window installation at the Convenience Gallery in Toronto, emulates the storefront of a payday lender. Payday lending has exploded locally and is unregulated, allowing lenders to extract exhorbitant rates.
N
Artist's multiple/book - Word pairs like this 'n that, up n' down, etc. are printed on current issues of consumer magazines. In this case, the March '08 issue of The Walrus, edition of five.
Exhibited at Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
PLATES
This project involves using the "vanity plates" services available in most jurisdictions to create a suite of thematic license plates.
BLOGUMENTA
Launched at the same time as the international art fair Documenta; gathers together artworks into a viewing space for Facebook audiences.
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REAL ESTATE
Illustrating the proportion of advertising to editorial in art magazines and other publications.
2007 view jpegs
SLOGANEER
During a residency at the Banff Centre, fellow residents were asked to write slogans for the Centre, which coincidentally was undergoing re-branding. A workstation was set up – an electric typerwriter laoded with a continuous roll of paper – and residents produced this document.
2006 view pdf
THE WORLD IS A CARTOON
Noticing frames around things in an increasingly cartoonish world.
2006 view jpegs
VOCATION/VACATION
Being creative requires discipline, unlike play. On the other hand, play requires imagination, unlike discipline.
HIS MASTER'S VOICE
His Master's Voice – riffs on the famous dog and gramophone logo, sometimes working something like a diary.
1985-2006 visit the hmv blog
APHORISMS
Sometimes you feel like you ought to say, but don't. Other times you do say but shouldn't have. These cards refer to the specific contexts in which they were created and distributed.
1982-2006 view jpegs
MAGAZINE WORKS
Magazines are wonderful containers, abundant with riches yet ephemeral, objects of desire one moment, discarded the next. These works treat or use magazines in many different ways.
1997-2006 view jpegs
piano drop
Celebrate art's birthday on January 17 by dropping a piano. Can't wait 'til then? Drop one now.
2006 visit the webpage
casts
"Nature" is a powerful trope, for whatever appears natural we also think of as more true and more virtuous. These plaster casts taken from the body exhibit an almost other worldliness, while those of a plain framed canvas eroded by water are more grounded. Sizes vary.
1992-94 view jpegs