Intermedia Artist
Imagen Historias (ee-MAH-hen ees-TOH-ree-ahs) poetically translates from Spanish as picture stories. It s also the name of the Substack where I regularly post the field notes plus analysis as mini visual ethnographies from the Spring 2025 semester learning immersive Spanish and pursuing an adapted Fulbright proposal, How We Missed You! Preserving Sephardic Culture from Medieval Multicultural…
ARCHIVED NEWS (2016-2018) Opening Summer 2018 : Six shows in six weeks #6showsin6weeks. 7 weeks is more accurate, but we re not really counting. See links below. June 1- Magnet Factory Bay View Gallery Night June 3- Sep 17 Jewish Artists Lab Exhibition: Crossing the Threshold- JCC June 28- Sep 16 Look Here! Villa Terrace June Continue reading Look Here! and Archived News
Transformative Commentary with Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man” Deep down, way down low, in the dark days of cuts and attacks upon the public sphere, vilification of teachers and public servants, and threats of even a thousand more cuts, I found some solace in Leonard Cohen’s 1988 album, “I’m Your Man.” The songs fuse together Continue reading Transformative Commentary
Marc Tasman and Luke Farley’s Sporting Goods express a kind of truth‐in‐advertising with respect to gun violence in America. These are fine art pieces made from appropriating images of automatic weaponry from retail sporting goods ads, maniacally scrawled with the rhetoric of traditional sports campaign slogans, “just do it,” and “impossible is nothing.” They don’t Continue reading Sporting Goods
Here is body of images that I have made since the winter of 2012, looking across the road from a moving automobile at Lake Michigan. Tree At Water Album It is an attempt to become intimate with the variety of ways that the water reflects the sky, and vice versa. Foregrounding the quality of light and Continue reading Tree At Water
Inspired by love and loss of families in my communities, these portraits are a rich exposition of families that I am connected to through my own children and family. In my invitation letter to this first group of families, I offered that I be allowed to come into their homes, make a photograph, and exhibit it publicly Continue reading Dear Family, I Love You
About an hour s drive north of the vibrant city of Montréal, Québec, in the Laurentian Mountains, is an idyllic enclave, cherished by five generations of a family. Established in the early 20th century by Canadian communists, their descendants maintain this land community that swells in the summertime with friends and extended families cottaging and visiting Continue reading Laurentian…
Visiting Poland as an adult grandchild of Jewish Holocaust survivors was a vivid experience. The beauty of the place, Galizia, the southern part of Poland, Lesser or Little Poland, Małopolska, the cities, the Vistula River, the countryside, the Carpathian Mountains, the generosity of the people, was stunning. This is a surreal contradiction to the deep shock of Continue reading Dark Tourist seeks…
Ten Year Polaroid Project 1999-2009 (photography, performance, installation, video) I took a Polaroid self-portrait every day for ten years and one day. I began doing this more than 5 years before YouTube came into existence. 10 years before Polaroid stopped selling instant film. 14 years before Oxford Dictionary added selfie to the lexicon. If laid side Continue reading Ten Years and One Day
Proposal for The New American Flag (photography, video, performance, installation, interactive media). Proposal for the New American Flag is an intervention in the form of a museum exhibition, designed to draw attention to the changes in American culture and laws since 11 September, 2001. This work was first shown at the 2007 Nohl Fellowship Exhibition at Continue reading Proposal for the New…