- watch the video on vimeo
Cloud Nine, 2018 - ongoing
Still image (in situ) from video-driven sculptural media installation originally created as a solo exhibition at Torrance Art Museum in 2018. I continue to produce additional sculptures and reconfigure this ongoing project.
Each of the suspended life-sized figures is drawn from a news-based persona: Businessman, Gunman, Mother, Alien, Immigrant, Angel - activated by luminous media signals that travel from their smartphone through their body. High and low-tech elements are juxtaposed throughout the installation: advanced electronics and synthetic materials are integrated with coastal flotsam and jetsam and sticks and stones. 'Cloud Nine' combines diverse experimental artistic processes to create a vivid portrait of 21st century hyperculture.
dimensions variable - computer, LEDs, electronics, sound system, polycarbonates, paint, found materials, online media footage
read reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Riot Material, Artillery, and Art and Cake.
best of 2018 lists: "Top Picks of 2018," Artillery, "Memorable Art Events of 2018," Art and Cake. - scroll down ▼
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ - foreground: Businessman, background: Alien
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ - Alien
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ - foreground: Illegal, background: Gunman + son
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ - detail: Illegal - back of head
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ - foreground: Mother and child, background: Gunman, Illegal
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ - detail: Mother
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ - detail: Gunman
- Cloud Nine, 2018, still, in situ - Angel
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