Competitive Scholarship 2015

Baltimore Bench

Twelve cedar planks, polyurethane varnish, black enamel paint and forty-eight zinc plated carriage bolts, nuts, and washers.

This bench was one of fifteen dilapidated benches on Mount Royal Avenue in Baltimore Maryland.

To pedestrians this bench is an invitation to sit; to the city it is an invitation to replace the other fourteen benches.

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The Train that Chugged Through the West - Donatable Sculpture

Take an artwork from the artist or the critic and put it in the hands of a child.
What happens?
What happens when we let others that aren’t typical gallery goers take part in the artistic experience?
This work was meant to leave the traditional gallery setting and live its life as a toy.

Hierarchal Stack Toy - Donatable Sculpture

Red Oak, pine, enamel paint, polyurethane varnish, and printed and cut images.

Hierarchal Stack Toy - Donatable Sculpture - Detail -

Mug as Gallery as Artwork as Mug

Van Gogh, Munch, and O'Keefe have their works on coffee mugs and they are thought of as "kitsch" artists, their work has fallen out of favor with those "in good taste" and has been taken up those who are not. Work that is no longer Avant-Garde or on the cutting edge ends up on coffee mugs, in calendars, or on keychains, but in choosing to -Kitschify- my work by putting it on a coffee mug the mug itself may become an Avant-Garde object and be at the same time less exclusive than a traditional gallery.

Others should consider showing their works on coffee mugs because they are easily repoduced and the mug becomes a portable gallery available for those who cooldnt't usually make it to a -room based gallery-

Each mug gallery shown above is individual to me because I've enjoyed either a cup of tea or coffee from all of them.

Business Card as Gallery as Artwork as Business Card

One thousand exhibitions of the same work that can be kept, transported, given away, or thrown away with ease. The inflation of this work allows multiple people to own and show off an original artwork at little to no cost.

Each card/work/gallery is individually signed via fingerprint which keeps them original to me.

(Mulch) Volcano Burger

Mulch dug up from around the base of a tree, lettuce, cheese, and white buns

A mulch volcano is a mass of mulch around the base of a tree. That mass will eventually kill the tree by oversupplying moisture which will rot the tree at the trunk or depriving it of moisture at the roots or both.

A cheeseburger is an American symbol of excess - like a mulch volcano