Queer Collages

April 18, 2024

These pieces were so fun and liberating to make. I bought a bunch of queer interest magazines from EBAY to create these.

This piece is titled “Making Eyes At My Clone”. it is a relief sculpture of my head on the left, with the negative carved out of the layers of magazine on the right. The pages come from magazines like U MAN from the 70s through the early 2000s. There was no wast materials with this piece, all cut materials were used.

This piece is titled “Under the Sheets 1: Finn and Cody”. It comes from a 3D scan of a gay couple together underneath a sheet in their bed. This piece speaks to how queer couples often need to hide their affection, and indeed their true selves, from the outside world. I was also alluding to how I have felt most comfortable and open in the safety of my own bedroom.

The rest of the pieces were made from the scraps of “Under the Sheets 1: Finn and Cody”, This first one is “Add On Us”.

“No Man Can Truly Be Seen, Because I’ve Intentionally Obscured Them All”

And finally, “We All Know Lesbians Can Read, But Did You Know That Some Of Us Gays Can Also Read?”. The full gallery of these pieces can be found below.

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Guiding Light

November 14, 2023

These pieces were made from shards of mirrored acrylic repurposed from past projects. All these photos were taken by the very talented WM Artist Services, www.wmartistservices.com

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REinterpreting REcreating Nature: My solo museum exhibit at the Littleton Museum

March 22, 2023

I was beyond honored to be asked to create a solo museum exhibit for the amazing Littleton Museum in Littleton CO. It was a bit daunting to fill the space available, but I am incredibly proud of how it turned out. The sow was titled “REinterpreting REcreating Nature” and it housed a range of pieces, from the first ever topographic experiments to my most recent installation pieces, and a wide range between. Thank you to the Littleton Museum for this amazing opportunity, you can see a video of me giving an artist talk at the museum HERE. These great images were taken by WM Artist Services, www.wmartistservices.com

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Map made of Maps

March 17, 2023

his experiment was a wedding present for a friend. The 3D elements of the map come from the section of the Grand Canyon where the proposal happened, and the road maps are from a Colorado Road Atlas, where both of the couple are from.

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Roaring Fork Watershed

March 1, 2023

These two pieces were created using topographic data of the Roaring Fork River watershed, which flows from the Elk Mountains, through Aspen and Carbondale, and into the Colorado river in Glenwood Springs. This map includes some of the most visited features in the US Forest system, including the Maroon Bells, Snowmass and Capitol peaks, and Conundrum hot springs.The first piece depicts the topography from slices of 1/8th inch wood, and the second piece is the inverse of the landscape, using the pieces that are cut from the original piece to create another interpretation of the land!

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Sand Hills Nebraska

February 24, 2023

This mat board relief sculpture depicts the unedited topography of a section of the sand hills in Nebraska. The shapes and patterns are incredibly hard to find anywhere else in the world at this scale!

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Wasatch Massif

January 6, 2023

This beautiful piece was commissioned for the Le Meridian hotel in Salt Lake City UT through 9 Dot Arts. This was my second piece to use backlighting, and boy do people love that element! The topography of the Wasatch Mountains above 7000 feet just west of SLC are depicted in the 3D sculpture, and the topography lines below 7000 feet the glowing white lines. This piece is made from laser etched mirrored acrylic, painted wood, bent frosted acrylic, and LED lights. It measures 64 inches in diameter, and is 5 inches deep.

I also made a second colored version of the 3D sculpture.

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Durango Welcome Topographic Tables

December 2, 2022

Through funding provided by the City of Durango’s Lodgers Tax Arts and Culture Fund, I installed these two topographic tables in the Welcome Center on Main Ave in my home town of Durango Colorado. It is such an honor to finally have artwork in my hometown, blocks away from where I grew up!

Durango Table: The first table shows the immediate area surrounding the town of Durango.

Purgatory Table: This table shows the area north, south, and east of Purgatory Ski Area, including Cascade Creek, Engineer Mountain, the West Needle Mountains, and the Hermosa Cliffs.

Go check them out if you are ever in Durango!

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Watershed Moments

November 21, 2022

This painted wood installation depicts the watershed of the upper Colorado River, from its source down to the confluence with the green river in Canyonlands NP. The individual watersheds of the rivers that make this system are further broken out, creating the cracks in the feature that resemble dried mud.

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NoBo Hands

September 22, 2022

These out door hand sculptures spell out the letters NOBO using American Sign Language finger spelling. I installed these for the North Boulder (NoBo) Arts District the support of the Armory Boulder. Go check them out in North Boulder CO!

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Mount Wilson and Sneffels Installation: Telluride Ah Haa HAHA

July 30, 2022

I was honored to be selected for an amazing opportunity in Telluride in the summer of 2022. Ah Haa School for the Arts is an amazing arts non-profit in the town of Telluride (in my opinion the prettiest town in the lower 48 states, prove me wrong!) that teaches the community all different types of artistic expression, and teaches all age ranges! Their annual fundraiser in 2022 transformed from a silent auction into an installation immersive experience, and I was selected to create one of the rooms. My installation was two 18 foot long sculptures, one depicting the topography of the near by Willson Massif, and the other the rugged mountains surrounding near by Mount Sneffels. This was so amazing to see come to life, and a butt load of work, there are over 270 separate slats of wood in this room, and each one had to be modeled, cut and painted, with 2 coats!

These first pictures are of the sculptures in the room, before the lighting crew came in to finish the installation.

And these pics are of the beautifully lit final installation!

In 2023 these sculptures were re-installed at a solo museum show at the Littleton Museum, the show was titled “Re-interpreting Re-ceating Nature”. These amazing photos were taken by Photos by: WM Artist Services, www.wmartistservices.com

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Faces and Hands

March 18, 2022

So this is going to be a journey through experimentation, woohoo!

Initially i wanted to take the topographic slices technique to biological forms, so I found some free 3D models online to slice. These turned out great when cut out of mat board. I also created a little animation with the hands from this.

hands test

A few years later I had some extra money to run some experiment with, so I paid for some scans of my face and hands, to create 3D sculptures with.

Slicing these with a #D printing program called Slic3r, i created these 2D images

Those 2D images created these small test sculptures

Then I started editing, warping, and combining the 2D versions

Which led to these sculptures which are some of my absolute favorites

I also created some large scale hands

Which I loved so much I did little photo shoot with the first large hand I made

I made a few more hands, including a Grateful Dead hand

Finally for these little experiments, I started merging landscapes into the biological forms, starting with my a bust of my head with Longs Peak

And finally, this creepy combo of my face and The Loop in Canyonlands

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

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Fitzgerald 14er Installation

September 8, 2021

This was an installation of my recreation of the Colorado 14,000 ft peaks in mirrored acrylic. It lives in the lobby of The Fitzgerald in Denver Colorado. I love how this mirrored acrylic catches the light. Thanks to Walker Fine Art and Nine Dot Arts for making this commission possible!

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Animas Watershed

February 23, 2021

This is the first ever piece I made depicting a watershed, and it turned out great! This is the Animas river, that flows from the San Juan mountains in south-west Colorado, down to the confluence with the San Juan river in New Mexico, and it is also the river I grew up on. This piece measures roughly 32 in wide, 48 in tall, and 4 in thick. I didn’t quite think about weight as I was designing this piece, and boy did it end up heavy!

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Winter Park

December 30, 2020

As a custom piece for Christmas this year, I created this sculpture of Winter Park in Colorado, with my own boarder and outline on the lower part of the sculpture. This piece is made from painted layers of 1/4 inch birch, and I love how it turned out!

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Plowshares: Altered Colorado

November 11, 2020

On May 17, 1973, The US Government Detonated three 33-kiloton nuclear devices thousands of feet underground in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, as a test of the feasibility of nuclear fracking. This test, named “Project Rio Blanco” was part of the broader “Plowshares Program”, an attempt to find non wartime uses for nuclear weapons. The center of the three imposed shockwaves in this piece is the drill site for “Project Rio Blanco”. This piece was created for the Land Lines show at Walker Fine Art.

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The Nipple: Altered Colorado

November 11, 2020

Starting with a 7.5 minute map of a feature in north Routt County, Colorado, called the Nipple, I stretched and altered this map in 2D, before constructing it in 3D. This piece talks to the silly nature of humans overlaying and forcing euclidian geometry onto the fractal geometry of nature, through rectangular land allotments and the like. This piece was created for the Land Lines show at Walker Fine Art in Denver.

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Fremont Map

October 15, 2020

As a commission for the Fremont Residences, done through Walker Fine Art and Nine Dot Arts, I created this 3D map of the western US, with the 5 exploration routes of John Fremont highlighted. In the mid 1800s, John Fremont embarked on 5 large explorations of the west, starting in what is now Kansas City. Those routes were diligently researched, and traced across the American West. The map is made from painted wood, with each layer representing 1000 ft of elevation gain. The routes, border, and coast lines are back lit with LED lit acrylic, and the whole piece is framed with natural walnut. This piece measures 9.5 feet wide x 7.5 ft tall x 5 inches deep.

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Colorado 14er Installation

October 3, 2020

As part of the show ‘Land Lines’ at Walker Fine Art (On display from Sept 25th - Nov 7th, 2020), I created this installation consisting of all of Colorado’s 14,000 ft peaks, recreated with gold, silver, and bronze mirrored acrylic. The mountains were isolated by their lowest encompassing elevation contour that still focused on the locality of the mountain. All the mountains are to scale with each other, sliced at the same elevation interval, oriented north south, and arranged in their general organization across the state (I had to crowd them in together to fit on the wall, especially the Sawatch range).

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Revelstoke Mountains

January 20, 2020

This wall hanging sculpture was created as a commissioned art piece for Revelstoke Capital’s new Cherry Creek office, through Walker Fine Art.

I depicts a very large area of the mountains to the east and south of Revelstoke Canada, rendered in the Colorado flag inspired color palette. This is easily the largest sculpture I have made, and I am very pleased with how it turned out. The materials are cut birch plywood, with each piece being hand painted. the contour steps are every 500 feet. What do you think?

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