“2011 ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION” AT CoCA, SEATTLE
From December 29, 2011- March 18, 2012, CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art) in Seattle, will present its 22nd annual juried exhibition and two of my artworks were included in the show. There is no theme to the show, but they were looking for work that experiments and explores in general, crossing disciplinary boundaries, challenging established notions of time and space, cultural production, and the objet d’art itself. For this year’s 22nd anniversary of the show, CoCA had the artist Gary Hill as juror. 16 artists were selected.
“SPHERE OF INFLUENCE” AT WORTH RYDER GALLERY, BERKELEY
From February 15 – March 5, 2012 I am part of four-person show at the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley, California. In the show, “Sphere of Influence,” each one of us has selected an artwork from the permanent collection of the Berkeley Museum to work and reflect upon. Participating artists are Rachel Dawson, Bean Gilsdorf, Sarah Hotchkiss, and Ida Rödén.
THE WASSAIC PROJECT
For the months of November and December I will be one of the Wassaic Project’s winter residents. The Wassaic Project is located in a refurbished mill and animal auction house located in southeast New York State. For two months I will create art based on research revolving butterflies and the character of Lewis Mumford, an American historian, philosopher, and literary critic.
“VISIONS,” SACRAMENTO FINE ARTS CENTER
A photography from the series “A Reunion of Lost People” will be exhibited at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center between November 1st and November 19. The show, “Visions – 2011 Sacramento Fine Arts Center Juried Photography Show” was juried by Terry Nathan, a photographer whose work centers on architecture, landscape, documentary and art/science fusion.
PERSONA, DARKROOM GALLERY
“Persona” is a group show at the Darkroom Gallery (formerly Vermont Photo Space Gallery) in Essex, Vermont. “Soccer Team – Peter Kronblad,” was chosen to be part of the exhibition. “Chris Buck chose 46 images beyond the traditional portrait – more than just a eloquently captured face. They include uncanny, parody, distortions, subtle suggestions and in-your-face implications.” The opening is Tuesday September 13, 5-7pm and the show will be up until October 7.
PROOF, SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
“Proof” is the 2011 Juried Exhibition at Southern Exposure in San Francisco, California. It marks the 20th Anniversary of SoEx’s Juried Program series. The juror was Denise Markonish, curator at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. With over 500 submissions, “A Reunion of Lost People” was selected to be part of the exhibition. The opening is Friday September 16, 6-9pm and the show will be up until October 8.
X MARKS A SPOT
“Chain Letter” is a global group show. The San Francisco portion of the project is called “X Marks a Spot” and will be held at N O M A Gallery in San Francisco with an opening August 6th, 6-8 pm. I will present four drawings.
YOU FIRST
In a group show, presented by UFORA at The Orange County Center for the Arts in Santa Ana, I will present my magazine The Unwritten Quarterly. The show will be held between October 1-29. The curator writes: “’You First’ seeks art reflecting a paradigm shift in the way we think about art. The art of our time is a multilayered, international, interdisciplinary conversation. ‘You First’ invites works with a compelling physical presence and a strong conceptual component to make this utopia tangible.”
MAGNITUDE 7.7
I am one of twenty-four artists exhibiting at Manifest Creative Research Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show opens Friday, May 27, and ends June 24. The pieces I contribute with are my three spheres, all titled The Circular Ruins.
The web site of the Manifest gallery informs:
MAGNITUDE 7.7 
Small works are very portable and fit well into many spaces. They also evoke in the viewer a sense of one’s own physicality, in a completely different way than average or large sized works. Small works are intimate; inviting approach and inspection. Like short poetry, they are a challenge to craft with the same presence of their larger counterparts.
We are delighted to offer this seventh annual exhibit of works no larger than seven inches in any dimension.
For this seventh incarnation of the project 349 artists submitted 801 works for consideration by Manifest’s rigorous jury process. Forty-one works by the following 24 artists were selected for presentation in the gallery and catalog.
MFA Thesis Exhibition
I just graduated from California College of the Arts. The MFA Thesis Exhibition had its grand opening Thursday May 12th and stayed up until May 21st. My installation, taking the form of a museum collection dedicated to Bernardo Soares, occupied one of the classrooms in the nave of CCA.
The Bernardo Soares Collection contains items that have either been in the possession of Bernardo Soares, or objects that can be related to this essential thinker. In the collection, one will find furniture, personal belongings, and interpretations of Soares’s creations by other artists. You can have a look at his replicated working study, then take a quick break and watch the experimental documentary that was made in honor of his life.
SF Gate, home of The San Francisco Chronicle, wrote the review “Sensorial – The MFA Exhibition at the California College of the Arts.” These are cut and pasted sections of the review.
Hammarby!
I’m one of fourteen artists exhibiting at CCA Wattis Institute. The show is a collaboration between the Belgian artist Kris Martin and thirteen graduate students at California College of the Arts. The show, called “Hammarby!” had a soft-opening February 15th. A new opening, featuring a new body of work revolving the idea of a sphere, will open March 29.
Charles Moffett has written a review about the show at ArtSlant.