99¢ or less (B/R/Y), 2022
three-channel video, powder-coated steel, electronic components, 11 minutes
Three monitors display three different monochromatic videos. The monitors are mounted vertically on erector set like steel armatures. The armatures, cabling, and electronic components paired with each video are color matched to their video.
Objects were collected from 99¢ stores and sorted by color. Each video was choreographed and captured in a single continuous shot to create three evolving, interrelated still-lifes.
Full video: https://vimeo.com/391728361
99¢ or less (B/W), 2022
two-channel video, powder-coated steel, electronic components, 10 minutes
Two monitors display a black and a white video. The monitors are mounted vertically on erector set like steel armatures. The armatures, cabling, and electronic components paired with each video are color matched to their video.
Black and white objects were collected from 99¢ stores and sorted by color. Each video was choreographed and captured in a single continuous shot to create two evolving, mirrored still-lifes.
Full video: https://vimeo.com/489665958
window replacement, 2021
three-channel video, 15 minutes
Three videos are projected on three free-standing walls arranged in a semi-circle.
Shot in a single continuous shot, choreographed in three parts, each channel plays back the same video staggered like a song sung in rounds.
The artist and their brother explore the studio window as a frame for collaborative composition. The siblings use shop lights, hole saws, fishing line, mirrors, and solvents to compose across the interior and exterior of the window frame.
Full video: https://vimeo.com/679823889
yard-work, 2019
two-channel video, 6:30 minutes
Two videos are projected on two free-standing walls forming a 90° angle.
Each video channel is composed of a single continuous shot; one of the artist, the other of their father. The two mirror each other's movements as they each arrange a series of large mirrors across their respective yards.
The pair place their mirrors to appear concentrically. Each subsequent mirror placed in the center of each previous mirror's reflective frame. The work culminates when the mirror reflections complete a circuit, pointing back at the camera.
Full video: https://vimeo.com/343098620
Open Ocean, 2018
single-channel video, 10 minutes
monitors, 2x4 stand, house paint
The video spans a four monitor video wall mounted to an armature mimicking the set of the video. Installed with gallery floors and walls painted the same blue as the set of the video.
Interviews with open ocean swimmers were translated into studio-constructed swims. Lo-fi special effects fragment and refract the studio swimmer. Excerpts from the interviews serve as partial captions. The work oscillates between meditation on embodied awareness and exploration of the dissociative anxieties of solitude.
Full video: https://vimeo.com/281101963
The Swimming Hole, 2015
single-channel video, 5 minutes
dimensions variable
Single channel video that documents a visit to Dove Lake, the setting for American painter Thomas Eakins' 1884 painting The Swimming Hole.
In an absurd effort at reenactment, the artist and five Philidelphia-area college students trespassed and swam in Dove Lake. Footage of the trespass and swim is narrated by a phone call to the realtor selling the multi-million dollar estate on which the lake now sits.
Full video: https://vimeo.com/154274084
The Swimmer, 2015
9-channel video installation
dimensions variable
Monitors circle the gallery, spaced to mimic the distances between the real world pools. The swimmer enters a monitor, swims the length of the pool, and exits the other end of the pool/monitor, only to re-appear a short while later in the next monitor. The swimmer moves from pool to pool in an endless loop around the gallery.
This 9-channel video installation is based on John Cheever’s 1964 short story The Swimmer, in which the protagonist swims a river of pools through his suburban neighborhood.
A river of pools, in a Southern California suburban neighborhood, were identified using Google maps. Permission to swim and record was solicited door-to-door. The performance was shot by a drone.
Swimming in an Exaggerated Manner Within the Perimeter of a Rectangle, 2013
single-channel video, 5 minutes
projector, computer tower, utility cart
dimensions variable
The video projection, the scale of an index card, is intimate, only legible from up close, overshadowed by the computer and projector, and only audible through headphones.
Shot from above swimming (in profile) on the studio floor. The horizontal image plane of the video is re-oriented vertically in projection. The artist/swimmer swims in an endless loop going nowhere on the studio floor.
Full video: https://vimeo.com/125216587
Patterns, Warnings, Nothing, 2016
single-channel video, 12 minutes
dimensions variable
On February 24th 1942, radar operators detected something in the night sky off the coast of Los Angeles triggering a blackout, a curfew, the arrest of men of Japanese descent, and the release of thousands of rounds of anti-aircraft shells over the city.
Hired performers re-stage location specific vignettes from the 1942 newspaper clippings. WWII re-enactor-hobbyists march through parks and play Sony's 2011 Battle: LA video game.
As the work progresses; air banners are digitally inserted in Los Angeles skylines, performers hired to re-stage detainment appear on the couch in a re-enactor-hobbyist's home. The evolving porousness between realities points to overarching questions about the ethics of treating traumas as sites for fantasy and play.
Full video: https://vimeo.com/161370551
Poet Follows the Sun, 2022
10x13 inch package
Printed in an edition of ~100,
distributed through the mail.
Curated, designed, edited, and printed in collaboration with Brody Albert.
Field Guide to an Octopus Future, 2022
8x10 inches, 36 pages, 5-color Risograph print
Made in collaboration with Katie Grinnan.
Smoked Milk Guardian, 2022
18x24 inches, 2-color screen print
Made in collaboration with Erik Benjamins.
Wavelength, 2022
7x9 inches, 24 pages, 4-color Risgraph print
Made in collaboration with Carlina Perna.
There's Nothing Left But To Go Outside, 2021
10x13 inch package
Printed in an edition of ~100,
distributed through the mail.
Curated, designed, edited, and printed in collaboration with Brody Albert.
Mukuntuweap, 2021
8x10 inches, 28 pages, 3-color Risgraph print
Made in collaboration with Mary Birnbaum and Cove Tsui.
For Pablo, 2021
18x24 inches, screen print
Made in collaboration with Paola Capó-García.
Textile print of Mother, 2021
22x22 inches, screen print on cotton
Made in collaboration with Hanna Hur.