PATCHES WITHIN PROXIMITY, AREA GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE, PORTLAND MAINE.
Patches Within Proximity questions the shape of our environments. With the use of cross discipline forms of observation and recording we [The Geographic Observatory] hope to uncover edges. Edges, or boundaries inherently suggest that otherness matters, and in ecological terms could mean the difference in a species’ survival or decline. We are interested in this component of the world and seek to observe its presents with multiple perspectives, from within our current present state and time. [view installation]
AGGREGATE, ICA, PORTLAND MAINE.
The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art (ICA at MECA) will present aggregate, a juried exhibition exploring place, pattern, and permutation. The works in aggregate employ a process of accumulation and assembly of parts to make a whole—each artist elaborates on an initial matrix. Individual objects such as books, maps, game pieces, or mold spores are treated as building-block components. Five artists working in various media—painting, collage, photography, sculpture, and performance—manipulate the context and form of fragments to explore notions of geography, perception, and possibility. [view installation]
SPECIES, GEM GALLERY, PEAKS ISLAND MAINE.
A collaborative show at the GEM gallery on Peaks Island, combined the work of four island artists in the exploration of species. Included The Species Project, The Detritus Project, plant sketching kits, ink drawings of island mammals, abstract paintings and other investigations. [view installation]
THESIS SHOW, ICA, PORLTAND MAINE.
The MFA thesis installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Portland Maine combined The Canine Tracking Project, The Perimeter Project and The Detritus Project. The projects combine to explore the landscape through different scales, from the city of portland to the island perimeter of Peaks Island to the specific movements of dogs on the island. The Installation was arranged based on a Cartesian grid, (x) representing time and (y) representing distance from the base. [view installation]
OIL, THREE FISH GALLERY, PORTLAND MAINE.
Project Oil explore the perimeter of a oil holding facility on the Portland Montreal Pipe Line. The project was part of a group show at Three Fish Gallery in Portland, Maine. For the installation the project was published as a book, and as three 8x10 photographs and two 16x16 GPS track logs. [view installation]
MAINE COLLEGE OF ART, PORTLAND MAINE.
Installed at the Maine College of Art in the summer of 2007, this grouping of images, maps, and shapes address the relationship of the landscape to the photographic image. The claims of specificity and scale located within photography are questioned through the use of a three dimensional map and corresponding image shapes. Scale challenges the relationship between the landscape represented in the image and actual geographic space the image is part of. The area not photographed exposes the subjective nature of the camera, revealing its limited view and questioning the landscape's veracity. [view installation]
