Acrylic latex paint on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 2022. Installation view of Obama’s Last Night in Office (left, 2017) and Biden’s First Day in Office (right, 2022):
RGB iPhone Screen Designs
These iPhone screen designs came about because I decided I wanted to explore the NFT (non-fungible token) space in the summer of 2021. Digital Art and NFTs seem like a very natural pairing, yet I wanted to make something that was not just a stand-alone artwork. I settled on iPhone screens, which could be enjoyed more regularly in everyday life. …
Xmas Tweets
Xmas Tweets, Website, 2012-2018. Xmas Tweets (.com) is a website that presents tweets featuring the word “xmas”. The site searches Twitter’s public timeline in near real-time to present a fresh batch of captured tweets, revealing the wide spectrum of emotions found around the holiday. Click here or on the “Launch Project” button below to view the work in a new browser tab.
How She Lost
Wood and Acrylic Latex Paint, dimensions variable, 2017. This piece, made up of three free-standing sculptures, is a visualization of the popular vote breakdown in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the 2016 presidential election. The height of each base is representative of the number of electoral votes of each state. The height of the smaller blue, red, and gray columns …
Trump’s Twitter Circus
Trump’s Twitter Circus, Website, 2017. Trump’s Twitter Circus is a visualization of the president’s use of punctuation in his tweets. The piece chronicles his Twitter feed in real time, displaying the ending punctuation as a block on the screen. A viewer can mouse over each block to read the text from the source tweet. Click here or on the “Launch …
Proposed Design for a New Presidential Emblem
Proposed Design for a New Presidential Emblem. Adhesive vinyl squares arranged on wall surface, 2017.
Transition of Power (From Hope to Highrise Demagogy)
Wood and Acrylic Latex Paint, dimensions variable, 2008 and 2017. The two sculptures comprising Transition of Power (From Hope to Highrise Demagogy) are extruded favicons for political campaigns. A favicon (“favorite icon”) is a 16-pixel by 16-pixel logo that appears alongside the URL or inside the tab in most browsers. Here, a block of wood represents each pixel of the favicon, …
Untitled (T)
Untitled (T). Black vinyl on structural column inside the Wright Gallery (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX), 128″ x 112″x 16″, 2017.
Green Card Panic
Acrylic latex paint on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 2017. As with all RGB and Sometimes Y pieces, the color sequence of this image was generated by a real-time search for the color labels “red”, “green”, “blue”, and “yellow” over Twitter’s public timeline. Green and yellow are normally the least common colors to appear, which makes this palette particularly unique. It …
Obama’s Last Night in Office
Acrylic latex paint on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 2017. Installation view of Obama’s Last Night in Office (left, 2017) and Biden’s First Day in Office (right, 2022):