Archive for: July, 2015

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Mediated landscapes

Above image, Abdominal Pain I is from a medical textbook purchased from a library book sale, Computed Tomography with Multiplanar Reconstructions, 1990’s, w 17″ X h 11″ – pages have been rearranged, stacked and glued together based on illustrations, images and text then sanded.    Working from discarded, found commercially printed materials as a jumping off point, these works represent and signify my vision of global mediated landscape.  Materials range from pop-culture, news magazines, to medical and science textbooks.  Choices are based on the quality of printing, paper, color and texture. Abdominal Pain II, pages from the chapter, Abdominal Sonography, w 18 X h 11.5,  Beginning with a block of glued and frozen layered pages and ground (sanded) down until a story or potential narrative appears to emerge.  The goal is to speak above and below the surface of the high resolution, pristine, sanitary, graphical and typographical surfaces. [banner image is from the diptych, Tommy Flight, […]

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Found wall paintings

For years I have documented odd textures, marks and other human references located in cityscapes; “imprints” in place that when “framed” appear to be abstract paintings. The past two summers I spent a month in Xiamen China, where I rediscovered my interest in these unique textures, primarily found in urban settings. The image in the banner along with the image above are from the ancient Kalyuan Temple, Renshou Pagoda, located in ancient city of Quanzhou the that has two towers in the east and west corners of the land with the temple in the center of the ancient compound.  The walls where these were photographed surround the main temple. These appear to be very old with water damage, which makes for the best pictures.  

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Xiamen ink washes

Through out my time in Xiamen, I maintained a journal/sketchbook. The influence of living in South Korea and being exposed to calligraphy, silk drawings, and writing characters has been reignited from this most recent trip to China. I purchased a tube of Chinese ink and a brush along with some other tools for the following explorations.

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X.U. Sandao Gallery

Last Thursday night, July 9 was the opening of an exhibition at the Sandao Gallery, Xiamen University, where I had four bodies of work on exhibit. The work in the images is from the new series called “John Thomson Reframed.” More information will be added in the near future.

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Art Student’s videos

Xiamen University art students produced a 2-3 minute video art project within a little over a week.  After the students were introduced to a brief history of the medium of video art, they were instructed to produce a work that was important to them at this moment in their lives.