Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Letter to Heather
Oh, and I had an intense dream-vision that my mother crossed a road and went under a tree and laid in a puddle and turned into a dirt mound w/ moss and the puddle was gone and then just behind where she had been there was a little cat graveyard and the cats were slightly uncovered with their paws and heads pointing skyward and when I touch a paw it crumbled and felt like that cream candy-bar nougat that is in the middle of a Halvah bar ....B.....
(Above image: Grounded by Heather Gray, 2008)
Me.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Mail Art Collaboration
Stacie and I were art-partners in the early 90's within another group called The Post Card Club. Every month we would make postcards and send each of the 9 members a card plus one unsuspecting person a card - the person was chosen by a different member each month and that person would receive 9 hand made post cards from unknown sources. (Mine went to my Philosophy professor at Virginia Tech - Dr. Joe Pitt.)
Champe Smith is now resurrecting The Postcard Club and generously including us in the upcoming exhibition Mapping Correspondence: Mail Art in the 21st Century opening April 11th at The Center for Book Arts in Chelsea.
Here are some images that came of Stacie and my collaboration ....
SANTA LUKA X02
We began with the idea that some people choose to have babies, and others choose to have dogs (we are of the latter) and how the "business" of being the "good" parent has become big - just look at all the silly "toys" out there for both!!!
SANTA LUKA X01
We are also interested in the amount of photos we receive every year at Christmas of our friends kids - its amazing to see them grow up from one photo a year - needless to say some of our friends are distant, and we don't see them as much as we would like ....
POSTCARD X01 (CLICK TO ENLARGE)
POSTCARD X01 BACK
I've always liked the greater than or equal to symbol ... and concept ... so we used it to speak about how we feel about our rescue-shepherd - Luka. Stacie did the drawings because she hasn't been ruined by art school ... I did the cut-n-paste and photo manipulation ...
POSTCARD X02 (CLICK TO ENLARGE)
This image was the front of the second card - the color image was the front of the first - with opposite images - color montage / pencil drawing - becoming images for the back of each ....
The show is up through the summer and just got a review in ARTFORUM ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Transformation: Testimony of Existence in Time and Space
Site-Seer Installation Video
Site 02
Site 03
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Oil vs. Art or You've Got To Be Kidding!!!
Robert Smithson, The Spiral Jetty, 1970
The date has passed to contact the Utah congressmen to complain about this insidious attack on one of the most infamous and important art pieces of the past century - THE SPIRAL JETTY ... And guess what -- I didnt even make the deadline, which was Feb 13th!!! Yes, like many, like even my students, I had the date in my "head" as Feb 22nd .... Too busy I guess .... (yes, that same old excuse) .... !#%#$^@$^$%^But why not go ahead and send those guys an email and let them know that you care? Check out the NOW REPUBLIC article and link to these guys' emails .... Let them know that Pearl Montana Exploration and Production, LTD - from Canada (now that just blows on all fronts) - has no right to drill so close to a national monument (well, it SHOULD be!) that is also a symbol of "American" freedom, art, Earth, indigenous awareness, and well, anti-manifest destiny!!! Not only will these "exploration boreholes" disrupt the color, elevation, and floor-base of the beautiful Great Salt Lake it will also disrupt an important migratory bird ecosystem ... Now is the time to make it all STOP ... How long can this over zealous, money mongering, tight-assed society that the Bush's have reigned over keep tearing away at the earth and our art, = OUR FREEDOM ... ???
ALSO:
SEE DIA ART
SEE THE NEW YORK TIMES OPINION
SEE THE DAILY HERALD
AND THERE ARE SOME GREAT LINKS AND STORY ON TREE HUGGER
Monday, February 18, 2008
ArtStuff
FANATIC by Jillian McDonald ...@ 1708Gallery / 319 W. Broad St. / Richmond, VA ....
Jillian proposes the artist as celebrity obsessor -- walking the line between voyer, stalker, or artist interested in jamming the culture -- ideas of the comodity of desire ....
See Jillian's Billy Bob Site for a walk through ... Billy Bob obsessions and the power of the female in general .... And for more info see the Screen Kiss site ...
And the article from the New York Times in 2006 tells it ALL !!!
AND SEE GINGER SPIVEY'S REVIEW IN THE MAY/JUNE EDITION OF ART PAPERS ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Artist & Writers ... and other things ...
These are some images from the ARTISTS AND WRITERS Exhibition from last April. This exhibition was curated by Kathryn Shaw-Sweeney at Flippo Gallery, Randolph Macon College. (click on image for enlargement)
Brad Thomas Birchett; The Everyday Act of Exhistence; photo-documenation (18, 8x12" silver geletin prints) of environmental intervention, audio; 2007
In this installation I worked with the idea/theme of story telling, building a narrative over time. I recorded my evening practice of throwing a stick for my dog, Luka. A repetative, physical, and learning experience that I work on every day..
... A detail of the installation.
... another detail.
... and another.
On the back of the cards were various segments of a short story by my wife, Stacie ... an epitaph she wrote for our other dog, Zuzu.Included is an audio piece created from the every-day sounds that happened during the interventions. These pieces were hand-edited and dubbed by my friend Johnny Hott. At the gallery there were also stacks of cards so people could have something ...
See Artist & Writers review by Christina Esposito: Read Into It
Please see also: Plant Zero Exhibition ... Matter of Time
AND, the Vanderbilt Exhibition ... Rubberneckers
