The Xspx Drawings are hand drawn with colored pencil on paper, using perspective and geometry to create forms, spaces, and color interactions.
Wiz, 2019
Wiz, 2019, 14x17 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Wiz (detail), 2019
Wiz (detail), 2019, 14x17 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Fuse, 2019
Fuse, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Fuse (detail), 2019
Fuse (detail), 2019, 14x17 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Xeeb, 2019
Xeeb, 2019, 16x20 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Xeeb (detail), 2019
Xeeb (detail), 2019, 16x20 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Hymm, 2019
Hymm, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Hymm (detail), 2019
Hymm (detail), 2019, 14x17 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Skade, 2019
Skade, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Skade (detail), 2019
Skade (detail), 2019, 14x17 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Mogz 2, 2019
Mogz 2, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Mogz 2 (detail), 2019
Mogz 2 (detail), 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Bow, 2019
Bow, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Bow (detail), 2019
Bow (detail), 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Hall, 2019
Hall, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Hall (detail), 2019
Hall (detail), 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Clown, 2018
Clown, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Clown (detail), 2018
Clown (detail), 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Skwil, 2018
Skwil, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Skwil (detail), 2018
Skwil (detail), 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Beem, 2018
Beem, 2018, 11x14 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Beem (detail), 2018
Beem (detail), 2018, 11x14 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Hatch, 2018
Hatch, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Hatch (detail), 2018
Hatch (detail), 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Spokes, 2018
Spokes, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Eye, 2018
Eye, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Graft, 2018
Graft, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Graft (detail), 2018
Graft (detail), 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Dream, 2018
Dream, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Dream (detail), 2018
Dream (detail), 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Ari, 2018
Ari, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Ari (detail), 2018
Ari (detail), 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Bulbs, 2018
Bulbs, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Bulbs (detail), 2018
Bulbs (detail), 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Mogz, 2019
Mogz, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Mogz, 2019
Mogz, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Kord, 2019
Kord, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Kord (detail), 2019
Kord (detail), 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Chrc, 2019
Chrc, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Plates, 2019
Plates, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Glip, 2019
Glip, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Glip (detail), 2019
Glip (detail), 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Quint, 2019
Quint, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Quint (detail), 2019
Quint (detail), 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Owl, 2019
Owl, 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Owl (detail), 2019
Owl (detail), 2019, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches
Skaff, 2018
Skaff, 2018, colored pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Cycx, 2019
Cycx, 2019, 18x24 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Cycx, 2019
Cycx, 2019, 18x24 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Bot, 2019
Bot, 2019, 16x20 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Bot (detail), 2019
Bot (detail), 2019, 16x20 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Pikx, 2019
Pikx (detail), 2019, 16x20 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Pikx (detail), 2019
Pikx (detail), 2019, 16x20 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Whip, 2019
Whip, 2019, 16x20 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Whip (detail), 2019
Whip (detail), 2019, 16x20 inches, colored pencil on bristol
Vein, 2021
ink, colored pencil on paper, 16x20”
Fourth World Sculptures
These outdoor sculptures were exhibited at the 2019 Fourth World Music Festival at the Knockdown Center in New York City.
Fourth World: Space Gates
Space Gates, a trio of sculptures, were on view during the Fourth World Music Festival at Knockdown Center, Queens, New York. Space Gates served up low-tech landmarks assembled from provisional materials (painted wood, PVC, natural and synthetic ropes). Their handmade, dangling charms looked like minerals, fungus, or industrial remnants.
Fourth World: Space Gates
Space Gates, a trio of sculptures, were on view during the Fourth World Music Festival at Knockdown Center, Queens, New York. Space Gates served up low-tech landmarks assembled from provisional materials (painted wood, PVC, natural and synthetic ropes). Their handmade, dangling charms looked like minerals, fungus, or industrial remnants.
Fourth World: Space Gates
Space Gates, a trio of sculptures, were on view during the Fourth World Music Festival at Knockdown Center, Queens, New York. Space Gates served up low-tech landmarks assembled from provisional materials (painted wood, PVC, natural and synthetic ropes). Their handmade, dangling charms looked like minerals, fungus, or industrial remnants.
Fourth World: Space Gates
Space Gates, a trio of sculptures, were on view during the Fourth World Music Festival at Knockdown Center, Queens, New York. Space Gates served up low-tech landmarks assembled from provisional materials (painted wood, PVC, natural and synthetic ropes). Their handmade, dangling charms looked like minerals, fungus, or industrial remnants.
Fourth World: Space Gates
Space Gates, a trio of sculptures, were on view during the Fourth World Music Festival at Knockdown Center, Queens, New York. Space Gates served up low-tech landmarks assembled from provisional materials (painted wood, PVC, natural and synthetic ropes). Their handmade, dangling charms looked like minerals, fungus, or industrial remnants.
Fourth World: Space Gates
Space Gates, a trio of sculptures, were on view during the Fourth World Music Festival at Knockdown Center, Queens, New York. Space Gates served up low-tech landmarks assembled from provisional materials (painted wood, PVC, natural and synthetic ropes). Their handmade, dangling charms looked like minerals, fungus, or industrial remnants.
Fourth World: Space Gates
Space Gates, a trio of sculptures, were on view during the Fourth World Music Festival at Knockdown Center, Queens, New York. Space Gates served up low-tech landmarks assembled from provisional materials (painted wood, PVC, natural and synthetic ropes). Their handmade, dangling charms looked like minerals, fungus, or industrial remnants.
Fourth World: Space Gates
Space Gates, a trio of sculptures, were on view during the Fourth World Music Festival at Knockdown Center, Queens, New York. Space Gates served up low-tech landmarks assembled from provisional materials (painted wood, PVC, natural and synthetic ropes). Their handmade, dangling charms looked like minerals, fungus, or industrial remnants.
Fourth World Light Mural
Fourth World: Quantum Cave Light Mural
Quantum Cave was a mural and light environment that turned a bunker into a contemplative, chromaphilic retreat space. (Photo: Seze Devres)
Fourth World: Quantum Cave Light Mural
In Quantum Cave, fellow cave dweller CT::SWaM engineered surround sound for live performances.
Fourth World: Quantum Cave Light Mural
Quantum Cave was a mural and light environment that turned a bunker into a contemplative, chromaphilic retreat space. Fellow cave dweller CT::SWaM engineered surround sound for live performances.
Austerity Measures (2012)
Austerity Measures is a series of drawings in colored pencil on drafting film of complex, cubic forms. Through layering instead of erasure, the drawings record the drawing process and decision-making. (Drawing is thinking.) The images function as plausible models, implying gravity, voids, and stress. (Drawing is building.) Each image requires learned skills, repeated, becoming a drill. (Drawing is action.)
The drawings evoke the human body. Tensile armatures appear skeletal; precise excisions seem surgical; aspects of the structures are "faces." And a viewer’s gaze populates the drawings, as the navigable systems appeal to the rational brain.
These drawings delve into geometry, the human body, and modes of drawing. Materials include ink, colored pencil, and acrylic on paper or translucent drafting film.
Trap (2012)
Trap (detail) (2009)
The Crystal Ark (2011)
The Crystal Ark (detail) (2011)
Positive ID (2011)
Positive ID (detail) (2011)
Blush Response (2011)
Am Spinnrade (2011)
Antepiston (2011)
Vapor Trail (2010)
Pizzicato (2011)
Come in Alone (2008)
Slippery When Wet (2008)
The Ideal Copy (2008)
The Only Way Out is Through (2009)
The Only Way Out is Through is a group of drawings that combine grid-based composition, interior architecture, and sexualized figuration. The infinite, but regular, repetition of the grid mimics the transcendent, yet banal, qualities of sex. The institutional spaces include gyms, restrooms, fitting rooms, which all are compartmentalized spaces that people visit for presumed self-improvement, such as fitness, hygiene, and fashion.
The Only Way Out is Through was presented as a solo exhibition at Invisible-Exports in May 2009.
Leaning on a Ghost (2009)
Leaning on a Ghost (detail) (2009)
Rectilinear Rectitude (2009)
Rectilinear Rectitude (detail) (2009)
The Stranger (2009)
The Stranger (detail) (2009)
Himmelblau (2009)
Binary #3: Interstate (2009)
Binary #2: Immodest Proposal (2009)
Vintage
These drawings, mostly ink on paper, were completed during the Workspace Residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and exhibited throughout 2007-2008. "The Eternally Obvious," a 20-foot-wide mural, anchored a solo exhibition at Salomon Projects, East Hampton, NY, in summer 2008.
Bedroom Suite #1 (2007)
Bedroom Suite #2 (2007)
Bedroom Suite #3 (2007)
Bedroom Suite #4 (2007)
Bedroom Suite #2 (study) (2007-11)
Hail Caesarean (2008)
The Eternally Obvious (mural) (2007)
The Eternally Obvious (drawing) (2007)
Heart of Glass (2007)
Leap of Faith (2007)
Failure to Levitate (2007)
Inverted Figure (2006)
Let Your Body Learn (2007)
Murals
Invisible-Exports exhibited Changing of the Guard in July 2018. A life-size drawing spread across three walls, the mural depicted a Greek orgy battle, inspired by Pollaiuolo’s Battle of the Ten Nudes. The mural was featured in ARTnews.
Entrance was a 16-foot-wide, site-specific wall drawing from 2007-2008 that existed in the SoHo loft of Patrick Callery. Drawn in situ, the wall included a hinged room divider panel, which swings to animate the image.
Changing of the Guard, 2018
Mixed media on walls, 11 feet tall
Changing of the Guard, 2018
Mixed media on walls, 11 feet tall
Changing of the Guard, 2018
Mixed media on walls, 11 feet tall
HELLO TODAY (2013-present)
HELLO TODAY was an artistic response to global capitalism, delivered through the medium of collage. These collages derived from the ad pages of mainstream magazines, especially those with the wealthiest readership: The Economist, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
A book sequencing HELLO TODAY images was funded on Kickstarter in April 2015.
