Target Practice

a peaceful exhibit

An Art Gun, aimed at both head and heart, is used to both entice and threaten you to step into your discomfort zone, and look into the landscapes of the Anthropocene Era.

Target Practice, the exhibition, leverages deep architectural experience (designing and creating 3D objects) and illustration/user experience (creating clear, impactful experiences) to bring to life subject matter ranging from global contemporary politics/ecology/civilizational-and-climate catastrophe to intensely personal experiences from the artist’s life. The focus is less on self-expression than it is on provoking the viewer’s emotional and cerebral involvement.

Many works begin with one of those amazing early 20th century portrait photographs framed under convex glass, then listening to the story of and being immersed in feeling for their long-ago life, then amplifying or subverting it to tell a story about our own era…our fears, sins, mistakes, anger at injustices and calamities perpetrated by the rich and powerful, aspirations, suppressed feelings, dreams, love of beauty and triumphs.

The resins, liquid plastics, transparencies, lenses and text are designed to create dreamy, hallucinogenic or disorienting theaters in which these stories are acted out, and to hide elements that reveal only after a second or third study.