My work at S.O.F.A. Chicago.
I’m very happy to say that a number of my works (including the attached image: “Doubtful”) will be featured by the John Natsoulas Gallery at this years International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art in Chicago November 5-7. The event is held in the Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago IL. If you are able to attend, look for booth number 221.
“Mad Science” exhibit opens Sat Oct. 30th at Sonoma County Museum.
I’m pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting several pieces, including “Nowhere Fast” (in the attached image) at the Sonoma County Museum next Saturday, Oct 30th. The exhibit is titled “Mad Science” and will also feature the works of Alan Rorie, Reuben Margolin, Mark Pauline (SRL), Ned Kahn, and Andrew Sofie.
There will be a not-to-be-missed performance by the legendary Survival Research Laboratories at 3:30 pm. This alone should be worth the trip.
The museum reception is technically a members only event, so if you’d like to come see the show on opening day you may need to announce yourself as “a friend of Nemo’s”.
The show runs October 31, 2010 – February 6, 2011. Museum hours are Tuesday – Sunday 11:00am – 5:00pm.
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I roughed out the preliminary mechanism for the head of my latest piece yesterday. you’ll have to bear with me until I work out the internal lighting. Its a bit difficult to see the facial features in this video, but I’ll make them stand out more with LEDs.
Started working out how to mount the tiny head inside the giant helmet of my new piece today.
Here is the current plan for the face of my new large figure. As-is sections of vintage vacuum cleaner parts. I hope to mount them behind a faceplate lens and automate it to slowly move in and out of the field of focus.
I’m considering starting another really big piece. This one currently stands 7’6”. I just want to be certain that it isn’t too reminiscent of my older “Little Big Man” sculpture.
Oh that, that’s just the X-Ray machine I picked up yesterday………..!
Birthday present from my Dad: A truckload of crap! Thanks Dad. Good stuff.
The days flea market finds. I’m particularly keen on the old hip-shaking machine. It’s a great shape and has a really robust mechanism inside.
Nancy took me to the Alameda flea market for my birthday!
Trying to kick start my old habit of working on several pieces simultaneously. Started a new push-toy today to compliment the insect I started last week. They both have heads made from violin scrolls FYI.
Got most of the insect figure worked out. It has a flicker bulb for it’s abdomen and I’m still playing around with some crank shaft mechanisms to move the legs.
This mornings goodies. I’m particularly excited about getting the fake painting to work: gurgling sounds, flowing, back-lit waterfall, etc. Also lolling forward to finally organizing my nuts and bolts, though I suspect I’ll always have a screw loose.
I got a beautiful old adding machine yesterday from the Sonoma County Museum sale.
Jeremy Mayer came by my studio yesterday to photograph his deer sculpture (the one on the left). We decided to do a group portrait with one of mine as well.
Working on using a violin scroll for the head on the new piece.
Buggin out today. Furniture scraps and piano parts.
Here is the final video for my new piece “Leporid-Eye”. You can see more images and details here.
Here is the final video for my new piece “Tightly Wound”. You can see more images and details here.
SF20 featured on SF Gate: Here is a nice write-up of the SF20 show with photos from the event.
The days haul in brief: gaudy furniture parts, push mower, vacuum cleaner, bull horns, neon sign transformer, various power supplies, copious amount of bubble wrap, etc.
Here is an image of my display at SF20 at Fort Mason in SF through this weekend. Lots of great stuff to see there.
SF20 – 20th century Modernism show and sale: For those of you in the San Francisco Bay area,…
I recently had the pleasure of drinking a margarita made in a rather unconventional way. Thank you David Calkins.
Here’s a look under the hood. Gotta love old cell phone chargers.
Fine tuning ‘ol sour puss today. I hope to have it finished soon ( hope to have a better title too).
Here is another video of the piece I’ve been working on. I’ve added an eyeball to the mix. Enjoy.
