blue and white

A few of the cups that I made in Jingdezhen with transfer images from our fireplace project combined with blue and white painting. I am not sure what it is about cobalt painting, but it sucks me in every single time. It seems just fast enough to keep the lines loose  - but in a perfect and detailed way.

times two

Landscape Lithophane - Mirrored. 

jingdezhen lithophane

Currently working in Jingdezhen for the next couple of weeks with the finest porcelain in the world. I thought I would bring a "giant" lithophane, inspired by the cut paper work I was doing this summer. This is test #1 - and I already want to go bigger.

die cutting

All day and all night, for a permanent installation opening in Feb. 2015. Stay tuned.

grand theft installation

A few more images from Grand Theft, a permanent installation for the 2014 FotoFocus Biennial. My favorite piece from the series is above, Koon's Pink Panther at MOMA. 

grand theft lithophanes

Lithophanes from Grand Theft - a 2 part permanent installation at The Carnegie in Covington, KY for the 2014 Fotofocus Biennial. Grand Theft is a Future Retrieval project that has been 6 months in the making, stealing our favorite pieces from museums around the country using a series of iphone images. The images were used to produce 5 porcelain busts, as well as lithophanes of each piece in it's original museum location. More images and information here.

cut paper wallpaper

The landscape cut paper background from our piece "Zuber's Menagerie" is now permanently installed in the living room. Our house has officially become a proving ground for past and future works. I am also secretly testing myself to see how much ornament and pattern I can live with before I break.

leaner

My take on the David sculpture GMD made this summer - ornamented with sprig molded banana leaves and gold leaf. The pattern is based on the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel wallpaper, which I will continue to copy and find new uses for...

one more hawk experiment

Ornamental Cooper's Hawk, 16" x 12" x 8", porcelain, luster, china paint, marble, photo collage, 2014

landscape cut paper

Studio shot of the cut paper landscape I have been working on throughout the summer. This piece will be wallpapered inside this monolith/capsule room, which is equal parts exciting and frightening.

follow up

Zuber's Landscape with Cooper's Hawk, porcelain, china paint, marble, photo print, 6'x 6'x 12", 2014.

all day

Studio shot of two new cut paper backdrops for an upcoming show at 21C Museum Hotel in Cincinnati, titled Hybridity: The New Frontier. (installation view below)

studio shots

Working on a couple of different projects at Bemis this summer... Nothing is finished yet, and some are still being fleshed out, but it is nice to have a few ideas going that may or may not come together.

and done.

Handcut landscape wallpaper. 7'x 7'x .25"

some gold leaf later

A few days and a packet of gold leaf later...  Not sure if this is heading anywhere, but it always feels nice to gold leaf anything really. 

bemis (day one)

For the next few months, both Guy and myself are artists in residence in Omaha, NE at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Our live/work studio space is amazing - hard to put those first few thumbtacks in the wall... We have a couple new projects lined up (one is massive) to really take advantage of the space and total artistic freedom.

kmac

Currently working on a new piece with GMD for the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, for a show opening in a little over a month. We have all the parts together, so we have been arranging and rearranging in the studio, combining my cut paper work with Mike's extensive taxidermy collection. Here is a rough cut.

taming nature

New cut paper backdrop for Taming Nature, opening next week in Milwaukee WI.

"Gangster's Paradise"
porcelain, wood, cut paper, handprinted wallpaper
42" x 20" x 8"

horror vacui

I have been working on series of tumblers for the last couple of weeks - finally using all my hoarded decals. The image is of our dog Chewy with a nod to Alexander Rodchenko and Bruce Goff for The Art of Food at The Carnegie next week. Naturally making perfect sense.

loving

instagram for random images of my work, plus bits and pieces from the studio.

paper landscape

so close... 

mao II

Mao Zedong figurines, found and painted in Jingdezhen, China. 

Mao II

porcelain, china paint, pvd

5.5" x 13" and 5.5" x 11"