Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at... Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at...

Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024  >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at International Objects in Brooklyn, New York. These carved and painted facsimiles are repetitions first in that they are copies of the real. However, these things generate a second repetition once they are installed in the context of the exhibition space with a corresponding surrogate, a partnered double, whose form/gesture/subject produces an echo, a second look, a deja-vu –– a rethinking of things as a strange gathering of material, meaning, and memory.

UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the... UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019
>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the...

UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019

>> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the personal library of conceptual artist and land art pioneer Robert Smithson. Smithson’s personal library is notable in that his titles reveal a wide range of subjects, providing a unique window into his research and practice—and also functioning like a time capsule featuring the culture and ideas of his time. Soon after Robert Smithson’s untimely death in 1973, all of his books were catalogued, boxed, and placed into the Archives of American Art, where they currently reside.

Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club exists in two forms: first as a comprehensive installation, a carved and painted sculptural rendering of every single title/edition from Robert Smithson’s library. And second, as a Book Club membership program that functions like a distributed archive—with participants from all over the world who purchase the second (and final) iteration of a carved and painted book sculpture from the available titles. In many ways, this part of the project operates like one of Smithson’s non-sites, slowly marking the time, distance and trajectories between books, ideas, persons, and spaces.

Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library and Book Club has been exhibited at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, The Wright Museum at Beloit College, The Institute of Contemporary Art (formerly the Cress Gallery) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, The Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, and as “R. SMITHSON’S BOOKS” a faux, used bookstore in the storefront of the Famous Hardware building in Springdale, Arkansas, at Shed Projects in Cleveland, Ohio and most recently at International Objects in Brooklyn, as part of the group exhibition: Extra Taste

UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB

Untitled Project: Poster [Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles - Un film de Chantal Akerman], Oil paint on carved wood, 48 x 34 x 1 ½ inches, 2023
>> a hand-carved and painted wood sculpture based on the original film poster of Chantal... Untitled Project: Poster [Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles - Un film de Chantal Akerman], Oil paint on carved wood, 48 x 34 x 1 ½ inches, 2023
>> a hand-carved and painted wood sculpture based on the original film poster of Chantal... Untitled Project: Poster [Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles - Un film de Chantal Akerman], Oil paint on carved wood, 48 x 34 x 1 ½ inches, 2023
>> a hand-carved and painted wood sculpture based on the original film poster of Chantal...

Untitled Project: Poster [Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles - Un film de Chantal Akerman], Oil paint on carved wood, 48 x 34 x 1 ½ inches, 2023

>> a hand-carved and painted wood sculpture based on the original film poster of Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles,” one of the ‘greatest films of all time’ and an amazing cinematic meditation on time, duration, and the everyday.

This artwork, a hand-made thing, exists in relationship to time much like the film, as a durational object, but also points to the ongoing commodification of cultural artifacts like original film posters (on ebay and in auction houses) which in the case of this film, is extremely rare and quite valuable, perhaps not unlike the artwork. 

Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and... Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans  >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and...

Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022  – @ SHED /New Orleans    >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and behaviors related to climate change and natural disasters in New Orleans, Louisiana. Featuring carved and painted wood sculptures of hurricane supplies and souvenirs as well as double-sided paintings of shaved ice treats (sno-balls) paired with products from hurricane kits, the work in this exhibition engaged hand labor and poetic relations to push the theatre of consumption up against the perpetual threat of extreme weather.

Archive: Untitled Project: Climate Economies [NOLA] [Sno-Balls + Supplies]

UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon... UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon...

UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021  >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration of Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon and/or going out of business –– installed in the storefront windows of the Famous Hardware building in Springdale, Arkansas from November 2021 thru February 2022.

UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The...

UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >>  Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The Store, The Workshop, and The Newspaper). Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [La Boutique] is a storefront/art installation in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring hundreds of carved and painted sculptures of Swiss-branded chocolate bars, based on specific cocoa-consumables from the past and present. These carved and painted chocolate bars are available for sale at the price of 100.00CHF, an amount roughly equivalent to one months wages for the average cocoa farmer working in the Côte d'Ivoire, Africa. The storefront space (La Boutique) is directly connected to the secondary space, Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [L’Atelier] is an installation of more than a hundred different carved and painted sculptures of objects and tools from the artist’s studio, revealing the process of production for each of the carved and painted Swiss chocolate bars and pointing (somewhat theatrically) to the connections between commodities and labor.  The last part of this project, Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring drawings based on headlines and images taken from a wide range of internet sources and news websites covering cocoa production and the (Swiss) chocolate industrial complex.

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UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an...

UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >>  is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an amount roughly equivalent to one months wages for the average cocoa farmer working in the Côte d'Ivoire, Africa.

The visual archive of all of the carved and painted chocolate bars can be found here: https://lachocolaterielaboutique.tumblr.com

Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex... Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex...

Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex and cocoa production on the ground.

UNTITLED PROJECT: LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE, Oil paint on carved wood, 2021 >> a carved and painted book/sculpture of Guy Debord’s seminal text, The Society of the Spectacle, based on a highly-collectible, first-edition copy from 1967. This... UNTITLED PROJECT: LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE, Oil paint on carved wood, 2021 >> a carved and painted book/sculpture of Guy Debord’s seminal text, The Society of the Spectacle, based on a highly-collectible, first-edition copy from 1967. This...

UNTITLED PROJECT: LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE, Oil paint on carved wood, 2021  >> a carved and painted book/sculpture of Guy Debord’s seminal text, The Society of the Spectacle, based on a highly-collectible, first-edition copy from 1967. This book/sculpture was specifically made for and given to the artist Frank Perrin after several conversations about books, capitalism, and Guy Debord. 

Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone... Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.
>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone...

Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021.

>> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone films, YouTube hits, animated gifs, kitten vlogs, tween Tik-Toks, vintage vines,  social media captures, or conceptual art videos, into a hand-carved, hand-painted VHS videocassette tape sculpture! 

link to project website: https://untitledprojects.com/HITOUCHVHS

Untitled Project: Sign [Blockbuster] >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2.6ft x 6.2ft x 12.3ft, 2021
>> Untitled Project: SIGN [Blockbuster] is a carved and painted Blockbuster Video store sign as a crashed/grounded event. This sculptural depiction of a... Untitled Project: Sign [Blockbuster] >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2.6ft x 6.2ft x 12.3ft, 2021
>> Untitled Project: SIGN [Blockbuster] is a carved and painted Blockbuster Video store sign as a crashed/grounded event. This sculptural depiction of a... Untitled Project: Sign [Blockbuster] >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2.6ft x 6.2ft x 12.3ft, 2021
>> Untitled Project: SIGN [Blockbuster] is a carved and painted Blockbuster Video store sign as a crashed/grounded event. This sculptural depiction of a... Untitled Project: Sign [Blockbuster] >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2.6ft x 6.2ft x 12.3ft, 2021
>> Untitled Project: SIGN [Blockbuster] is a carved and painted Blockbuster Video store sign as a crashed/grounded event. This sculptural depiction of a... Untitled Project: Sign [Blockbuster] >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2.6ft x 6.2ft x 12.3ft, 2021
>> Untitled Project: SIGN [Blockbuster] is a carved and painted Blockbuster Video store sign as a crashed/grounded event. This sculptural depiction of a... Untitled Project: Sign [Blockbuster] >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2.6ft x 6.2ft x 12.3ft, 2021
>> Untitled Project: SIGN [Blockbuster] is a carved and painted Blockbuster Video store sign as a crashed/grounded event. This sculptural depiction of a...

Untitled Project: Sign [Blockbuster] >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2.6ft x 6.2ft x 12.3ft, 2021

>> Untitled Project: SIGN [Blockbuster] is a carved and painted Blockbuster Video store sign as a crashed/grounded event.  This sculptural depiction of a once popular, now defunct video rental chain is intended to function as a nostalgic platform for thinking critically about our physical relationship to both movies and corporations.

UNTITLED PROJECT: BLOCKBUSTER [ THE CORPORATION ], oil paint on carved wood, 2006/2020 >> a carved and painted Blockbuster video store shopping bag holding a rental DVD of the documentary film The Corporation. This visual conflation of these entities...

UNTITLED PROJECT: BLOCKBUSTER [ THE CORPORATION ], oil paint on carved wood,  2006/2020  >> a carved and painted Blockbuster video store shopping bag holding a rental DVD of the documentary film The Corporation. This visual conflation of these entities points to the immutable relationship between the critique of corporate capitalism and its consumption. 

Untitled Project: Amazon Delivery Confirmation [May 22 / June 18 / July 02 / August 03 / September 11 / October 02 / November 05 / December 29 / January 05], Oil paint on wood panel(s), each 7 x 5 x ½ inches, 2021
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Untitled Project: Amazon Delivery Confirmation [May 22 / June 18 / July 02 / August 03 / September 11 / October 02 / November 05 / December 29 / January 05], Oil paint on wood panel(s), each 7 x 5 x ½ inches, 2021     

>> Untitled Project: Amazon Delivery Confirmation is a collection of small paintings documenting patterns of consumption of goods and services in 2020, during the months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Each painting is based on an ephemeral ‘proof of delivery’ image taken and uploaded by an amazon delivery driver—momentarily exposing both quarantine consumer behavior and evidence of an essential labor force. 

UNTITLED PROJECT: MOUNTAIN/ROCK SHOP, Oil paint on carved wood, 2019 >> Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop is an investigation of a particular place through objects and images — in particular, hand-carved and painted rocks based on real rocks... UNTITLED PROJECT: MOUNTAIN/ROCK SHOP, Oil paint on carved wood, 2019 >> Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop is an investigation of a particular place through objects and images — in particular, hand-carved and painted rocks based on real rocks... UNTITLED PROJECT: MOUNTAIN/ROCK SHOP, Oil paint on carved wood, 2019 >> Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop is an investigation of a particular place through objects and images — in particular, hand-carved and painted rocks based on real rocks... UNTITLED PROJECT: MOUNTAIN/ROCK SHOP, Oil paint on carved wood, 2019 >> Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop is an investigation of a particular place through objects and images — in particular, hand-carved and painted rocks based on real rocks... UNTITLED PROJECT: MOUNTAIN/ROCK SHOP, Oil paint on carved wood, 2019 >> Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop is an investigation of a particular place through objects and images — in particular, hand-carved and painted rocks based on real rocks... UNTITLED PROJECT: MOUNTAIN/ROCK SHOP, Oil paint on carved wood, 2019 >> Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop is an investigation of a particular place through objects and images — in particular, hand-carved and painted rocks based on real rocks...

UNTITLED PROJECT: MOUNTAIN/ROCK SHOP, Oil paint on carved wood, 2019  >> Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop is an investigation of a particular place through objects and images — in particular, hand-carved and painted rocks based on real rocks collected in and around Sun Valley, Idaho during the summer 2019. All of these rocks have been constructed as contemplative objects—specific things that are slowly seen and/or held in order to help one connect to a knowledge of another thing. All of these rocks have also been intentionally produced and positioned as curious commodities /strange souvenirs of a specific landscape. 

What does it mean to interpret a place or value a landscape as a commodity? Unfortunately, over the past two centuries this particular Idahoan landscape has been repeatedly objectified, its value reduced to pelts, minerals, and mountain views––its capacity has become complicated. In the end, these hand-made sculptures of local rocks and paintings of mountain real estate aspire to be oblique, desirable products that move awkwardly from inception to production to transaction to display—at once imitating the commodification of place but also providing a momentary pause for considering our location in a landscape that is always changing.

Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop was part of the exhibition “Marketplaces: From Open Air to Online” curated by Courtney Gilbert at the Sun Valley Art Museum  in Ketchum, Idaho. During the exhibition, all the carved/painted rocks were made available for sale at an established low price point for local buyers, and also online, at a price determined by the distance in walking hours from the online buyers physical location to Sun Valley, Idaho. 

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