PULP LEGEND is pleased to present Collective Showing I, the first project in a series that brings a number of art collectives together in one show. Along with Pulp Legend, Collective Showing I will feature Indecisive Moment, Cinebeasts, BADCAT, and Aux Armes curating and performing video art programs on various themes.

The show will take place at Brooklyn Fire Proof East on Saturday, September 18, 2010.

THE SHIFT is a birthday benefit for Devotion Gallery and 319 Scholes. It includes an exhibition, art auction with all pieces capped at $250, multiple performances, high calibre live music, and workshops focused on music technology. If you missed the last year at these two ground breaking, kick-ass exhibition spaces, or want a sneak peak at what is in store for 2011, THE SHIFT is not to be missed.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS SOFTlab, Dan Tesene, Marius Watz, Benton Bainbridge, Chris Jorden, Joshue Ott, Bethany Shorb, Sougwen Chung, Aaron Meyers, Jorden Haley, David Last, Phoenix Perry, Micah Frank
Lindsay Howard, Michelle Mayer, Duncan Malashock, Alexandra Gorczynski, Dave Linnenbank

So I got a little press for my installation of ROOT BOOTS in Reuters.com and on this nerdy gear blog Gizmodo.com

COME CHECK OUT THE PREMIER of ROOT BOOTS at NYU's Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program's Spring Show.... 721 Broadway 4th Floor .

I just began exploring the 'recently possible' at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.... Stay tuned for a website update.... finally!

EXCESS: [Installation Overload] Exhibition, curated by Christina Hiett
March 17 - April 12, 2008

Issue 5 Release Party/Closing Reception: Saturday, April 12, 6-9 pm
EXCESS EXPLODES!

Where:
Salvage Vanguard Gallery
2803 East Manor Rd
Austin, Texas 78702
www.salvagevanguard.org




Art Performances, 7-9 pm by: Amelia Winger Bearskin, Sean Ripple, Michael Anthony Garcia, Mark P. Hensel aka the Mizzzard, Jak Cardini, and Dr. Chuch of the Gold County Papermill ….come for the excess and stay for the comedy troupe show at 10:30 pm in the Theater.

Artists: Megan Klein, Sarah Stevens, Michelle Mayer, Lance Bradley, Paul Moncus, Joseph Philips, Emilio Villarreal, William Hudley, Laura Latimer, Sean Gaulager, Shea Little, Jaime Castillo, Mark Aguhar, Mark Rosen, Stacy Kirages, Victoria Ridgeway, Micha William Stroup, Elizabeth Stauber, Maria Indelicato, Nancy Nguyen, Olivia Junell, Hector Hernandez, the Universtiy of Texas Art History Association and the Young Artists at Arthouse.

Mounds, mattresses, markers, metal, manikins, mail and monitors.Piles, photos, pieces, paint, stacks, string, scissors, signs, suggestions, More is more in the current and ongoing exhibition now on view at the Salvage Vanguard Gallery. EXCESS explores abundance and overindulgence in the everyday while investigating the confines of an interior space. Over 30 artists are progressively installing works from March 17 through April 12. As their works evolve and emerge they engage with other mediums in close proximity.

This exhibition is produced by Cantanker Magazine and coincides with the release of Issue # 5 also focusing on the ramifications of EXCESS. Join us for the launch party and performances. Contribute your favorite individually wrapped snack foods to our Pile of Preservatives and win a consumer whore crown!....while supplies last.


> Also, join us at Longbranch Inn [1133 E 11th St, Austin, TX] for an unofficial after-party and more excessiveness.

This Sunday, if you're in Austin, come check out my alter ego CINEMATICS as I mix music and video from 9:30- 2am Spiderhouse

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) is having their annual conference in Austin this year, and I have been asked to show one of my video installations! NAMAC

I have a piece up at Women and Their Work Gallery in Austin TX...Its up for two weeks starting Sept 20. RED DOT

<http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2006-05-19/arts_review3.html>

The Austin Chronicle
May 18, 2006
"Justice for All? Artists Reflect on the Death Penalty"

Gallery Lombardi, through May 22

<www.deathpenaltyartshow.org>
This article was in last week's Chronicle :

Do you remember the Garbage Pail Kids Trading Cards? I think it was in the early Eighties that their disgustingly caricatured personas were all the rage. While kids traded "Sicky Vicky," a goopy girl who looked to have been covered in slime, snot, and I don't want to know what else, for "Up Chuck," and "Potty Scotty" for "Virus Iris," I guess the concept of anti-role models was being worked out in the social exchange of one disgusting character for another.

For some reason, I thought about the Garbage Pail Kids Trading Cards after seeing Annie Feldmeier Adams' entry in the Texas Moratorium Network's "Justice for All?" show on the death penalty. Yet where the Garbage Pails featured sticky, dirty characters, each of Adams' "Last Supper Trading Cards" shows only a plain, very human mouth, a number, a date, and a stark printout of what looks like a menu, listing something like liver and onions, mashed potatoes, gravy, and whole milk. While even after reading the card, I don't know who No. 247 was or what he did to be executed on June 13, 2001, I do know that he wanted old-fashioned comfort food at his last meal. I also know that No. 247 is dead now, and his card can't be traded for anything other than what it was.

The human detail illustrated through the tight graphic design of Adams' cards is part of the sentiment that runs through "Justice for All?," which was juried by Annette Carlozzi, head curator of the Blanton Museum of Art's Contemporary and American Art collection; Lora Reynolds of Lora Reynolds Gallery; and Malaquias Montoya, artist and professor at UC Davis, with assistance and support from Scott Cobb from the Texas Moratorium Network, and Gallery Lombardi curator and Chronicle arts writer Rachel Koper. Including pieces from artists worldwide, some of them longtime activists, others newcomers to the issue, and some death row inmates themselves, the show is nothing short of powerful. While the exhibition is not the overt political parade it could be, it is like artfully asking us to see the full-scale slaughter of the chicken we usually find so nicely dissected and Saran-Wrapped at HEB and to come to terms with what it takes to eat dinner as usual.

The show is not without humor (Bush gets a jab or two) and also not without provocation. Austin artist Michelle Mayer provides a video installation of another last meal, projected down on an injection bed supporting the tin dinner tray. While the tedium of eating becomes the urgency of living, the work leaves its viewer with an aching stomach unrelated to food consumption. Poor Boy, by Melinda Wing of Phoenix, is a monotype image, three times changed over the piece with the quote "poor boy / you bound to die" seemingly handwritten across the center frame. The piece implicitly references all the statistics showing how death does not come equally to the poor and the minorities who are tried in capital punishment cases, reminding the viewer that the "poor boy" quote is as much statistically more probable as it is colloquial.

While shows like this can often preach to the choir, their power and poignancy give art its legs and give all of us an opportunity, as "responsible" voters (in all senses of the word), to think through what it means to be the only industrialized nation practicing capital punishment. "Justice for All?" is a must for anyone with strong feelings, mixed feelings, or even few feelings on the death penalty.

The Butter's All Gone
New Paintings and Drawings
May 18-June 30 Progress Coffee
Opening reception May 18 7-9 pm

Justice For All? Artists Reflect on the Death Penalty
May 6th-May 22nd
Gallery Lombardi Opening 7-9pm
I will be showing a new video installation. Come check it out!