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Artist Statement
For the past fifteen years I have been making research based artworks that place natural systems within a frame of social and historic contexts. While this often takes form as sculptural installations my recent work has included a trilogy of videos about microorganisms, founding and directing CRITTER- a salon for the natural sciences in San Francisco, and developing some LEED Transplutonic building materials. These diverse projects stem from my fascination with the interrelationships between human beings, technology and the greater living environment.
My personal drive for making work about the organic world is born from a lifetime interest in biology. While I was terrible in high-school science and math my education emerged through a more direct engagement with materials and practices; as a chef I began to understand biochemistry and laboratory methods, as a hospice caregiver I worked with life support technologies and environmental controls, and through my interest in wild mushrooms I learned about taxonomies, forest ecologies and husbandry. Engaging with the sciences through an every day practice is a route that is aesthetically, intellectually and symbolically rich. In my various projects I show what I find interesting about the natural world, and use the lens of human artifice to achieve a specific focus of that view.
EXHIBITIONS
2009
The Future Imaginary, Otis College of Art and Design, Ben-Maltz Gallery, LA, CA
Other Worlds, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
EAT ART, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Lisbon Biennial of Art and Science, Portugal
2008
Machine Guide to LACMA, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Eureeka!, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
One Percent Water, Z33 Art Centre, Hasselt, Belgium
Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Science As Suspense, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia
Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
2007
BioTechnique, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Spanners, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Networked Nature, Foxy Production, NY, NY
Bios4, Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
2006 Chronic Revelator, Pomona College Museum, Pomona, CA
Garden Improvement, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Juniors’ Returns, Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
2005
Break Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Fabulandia, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Social Construction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Eco-Art, SF State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Botanic, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catherine Clark Gallery, SF, CA
Biennial of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia
Organized, Machine, LA, CA
Botany 12, Sonoma County Museum, CA
GardenLab, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
The SF Show, New Image Art, LA, CA
2003
Reveling Influences, Museum of Craft And Folk Art, SF, CA
RealUNREAL, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
Flipping the Bird, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2002
New Fangle, GenArt, SF, CA
We Are All Meteorites, RAMP GALLERY, Hamilton, New Zealand
Traits Of Life, The Exploratorium, SF, CA
2001
Life Like, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Let’s Get to Work! , Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Mycological-Fair, Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
2000
MFA Thesis Show, Stanford Art Center, Stanford University
The Discovered Order, Kiber Lab, Maribor, Slovenia
1998
Material World, Spaces, Cleveland Ohio
Annual Juried Show, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
Gallery Sixteen, San Francisco, CA
1996
Bay Area Awards Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1995
Ruff, Ross and Yo, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Missed Connections, San Francisco Arts Commission, S.F., CA
1992
3+Play, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
2000 MFA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1991 BFA, Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2008
MacDowell Colony Fellow
2007
Porter Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz
Artist in Residence, SymbioticA, University of Western Australia
Artist in Residence, Oxbow School, Sonoma, CA
2005 I
nstitute For Figuration Research Grant
2004
Eureka Fellowship
MacDowell Colony Fellow
2001
The ArtCouncil Grant
Artist in Residence, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1999
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1998
Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
1996
Bay Area Visual Arts Award, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1991
Art in Transit Program, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
CURRATED EXHIBITIONS
2008
Techne, Maker Faire, San Mateo
2007
BioTechnique, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2003
Out Of Line, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University
2002
Chlorophilia,The Exploratorium, SF
2001
Watercolor Competition, with Adriane Colburn, Radical Space, SF
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Co-Director- Garden of Forking Paths
Design and construction of The Machine In the Garden, Oxbow School, Napa California
Director/Founder, CRITTER, a salon for natural science and culture in San Francisco.
Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Architecture, University of San Francisco
LECTURES/ SYMPOSIA/ WORKSHOPS
2009
College Arts Association, Panel: “Soft Squishy Things”, Talk: “Anti-Gyne”
California Institute of the Arts, One week long AIR workshop on molecular movement,
Department of Integrated Media.
2008
University of Toronto, Subtle Technologies Conference, “Endoscopy”
2007
California College of the Arts, BioAesthetics Panel Talk, “Biotechnecronomicon”
2006
International Society of Electronic Arts, San Jose, CA-
Workshop: “Principals of Clean”
Panel: “Five Questions For Biology”
Zeum, SF, CA: Lecture: “Ganoderma complex, fungus folk art
traditions in Asia and rural America”
2005
Visiting Artist Lecture: “Dig”- Workshop: “Laminar Flow Interiors ”
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist Lecture: California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture: “Emergent Organization” Pomona College, Pomona, CA
Workshop: “Laboratory Construction and Pure Culture Preparation”
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004
Symposia: “Biotech Art Workshop”, University of Western Australia
A five-day workshop on the theory and application of biotech processes to art making practices. Co-taught with Oron Catts and Gary Cass.
Visiting Artist Lecture: “Techne” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture: “Nature and Technology” Phil Ross and Stephanie Syjuco,” Sonoma County Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2003
Visiting Artist Lecture: San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2002
Workshop: “ Tissue Culturing on Agar” SF Mycological Society, SF, CA
2001
Visiting Artist Lecture “Objective Performances” Rensalier Polytechnic Institute
Vermont Mycological Society, Burlington, VT
PUBLICATIONS
2007
BioTechnique, Bio-Force Publications, 96 Pages
Good Times, Bad Trips, Gallery 16 Publications, pp34-35
The Greenhouse Effect, Contemporary Art & Investments, pp 14-19
Life Extreme, Policrom Publications, Eduardo Kac, pp 102-103
2006
Home Mycology Lab, Make Magazine, Volume 7, pp102-110
Insiders, Machine Project Guide to Cultural History& Natural Sciences,
Pomona College Museum of Art pp69-79
2005
“Natural Ready-Mades”, NADA Magazine (In Portuguese), Volume 7, #4
2004
“Three Page Works” Ramp Magazine. Vol 1, #1 pp 38-41
“It’s All Good” Leonardo - Volume 37, Number 3, June 2004, pp. 180-181 The MIT Press
“Oyster Art”, Oyster, Chpt. 7, Rebecca Stott, Reaktion Books
2003
“Fellos”, Harvest, Future Farmer Publication, pp128-131
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
John Alderman, “Art and Culture”, Make Magazine, Volme 12, pp26-29
2006
Ken Johnson, “Odes to Nature, Grand and Demure, at Two Bronx Gardens”
New York Times, Friday, July 14
2006
Ken Johnson, “Artist Gardens” New York Times, Friday, July 14
2005
SF Weekly, “Imaginary Forces”. October 26,
2004
Julian Myers, “Our Hospitality” Frieze Magazine, Issue 79
2003
Michael Krasney.“Art & Living Organisms” Forum, KQED Radio,
SF, December 19
“Art Meets Nature” SPARK, KQED Television, April 9
Douglas J. Peckenpaugh “ Jarred In—An Exploration of Artistic Hydroponics”
The Growing Edge, Vol.14, No.5 May/June
2002
Berin Golonu, “The Studio as Laboratory” Artweek, October
John Osgood, “Art On The Half Shell” Osgood Files, CBS Radio, March 12
2001
Will Shank, “Tales From The Crypt” Bay Area Reporter, July 19
Todd Dayton, “A.I.: Artistic Intelligence” SF Weekly, June 27-July 3
Kenneth Baker, “Galleries” SF Chronicle, June 30
Glen Helfand “Artificial Instigators” SF Bay Guardian, July 11
John Rapko “Reviews” Artweek, September
Zacharry Lewis, “Curators Show A Working Exhibit”
Harrisburg Patriot July 19
Anne Crump, “Artspeak” SF Examiner, November 1
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