still of tonight's result (collaborating with kazue)

collaborating with kazue

painting/talking "improvisation without red, green or blue" with ben taylor

“That Big Red Button Was Irresistible”: Play Station at Postmasters by Carla Gannis and Peter Patchen

http://artcritical.com/2011/12/16/play-station/

current state of improvisation without red, green or blue

current state of "improvisation without red, blue or green" (egg tempera on wood panel; original software and video to be integrated)

collaborating on "improvisation without red, blue or green"

about to start painting / videoing an improvisation

gessoing a wood panel (starting a new piece)

you can shoot a traffic cone and play lots of games right now until 10pm at postmasters 459 w 19th

shipping the landscape with inverted traffic cone to the east wing x exhibition at the courtauld institute of art in london

showing "the problem with destruction is that once you destroy something you can't redestroy it" at postmasters this thursday 12/8, 6-8pm bring-your-own-beamer event curated by marcin ramocki and paul slocum in conjunction with their "play station" e

still thinking about what i do, what i want to do as preparation for project planning and revised artist statement

thinking with a pen

thinking about art-making, my place in this universe, awareness, the origin of ideas, etc.

timeline (working on a new artist statement, planning new projects, thinking about how i approach art-making, asking questions)

unexpected outcome of studio visit this past sunday

http://mantlethought.org/content/one-painting-moves

the piece is complete. hope to share it with you in person.

finishing editing video of painting in projection for the moving landscape with an inverted traffic cone

working on the software component of the moving landscape with an inverted traffic cone

editing, compositing and rendering video of oil painting during/beneath projection (for the third layer of the landscape with an inverted traffic cone)

importing video (of video projection and oil painting) for the moving landscape with an inverted traffic cone

current state of moving landscape with inverted traffic cone piece (work in progress)

painting, projecting and videoing a moving landscape with an inverted traffic cone

still unpacking but studio is functional - ready to start painting tomorrow

making the physical component of a media installation transportable

gessoing canvasses

rendering video

compositing video (for an as-yet-untitled piece)

videoing an exceptional upside-down cone impaling a concrete cyclist/pedestrian path for an as-yet-untitled piece

retrieving several weeks of time lapse footage from wave hill's wild garden

just finished laying down astroturf in my new studio

my collaboration with neil gitnick at charles thomas contemporary at carmichael gallery in LA

"i would force people to watch sports" - mat gleason

if you're in LA please come to 5795 washington blvd

the young artist charles gitnick with associates thomas gitnick and michael adams

three pixelations installed (four more pieces to go plus small works)

installing

installing in LA

shipping paintings to LA

1080 painted pixels (completed painting component of "a half-pixelated death of painting by stoning (improvisation in blue, purple and orange)")

painting one-inch pixels

current state of the painting component of "a half-pixelated death of painting by stoning (improvisation in purple, orange and blue)"

painting a painting of stoned tubes of paint on plywood for the improvisation in purple, orange and blue

the completed painting component of the pixelated still life (of flowers wilting and a painting of the flowers being painted, both in front of a red sheet/blanket hanging from the wall)

current state of the painting component of the pixelated still life

painting smaller pixels

painting pixels

editing video of painting a still life

deciding how much to pixelate the wilting/unwilting flowers for the painting

rendering new versions of the wilting flowers in which different wilting times overlap

compositing and rendering pixelated video clips of paint being thrown, dripped and brushed