Twelve Days of Christmas Gifts for Yoko Ono

Art, Twelve-Days, Zine

I was sitting with a friend at Second Cup and the conversation came around to Yoko Ono. No other public figure teeters between adoration and unfounded opprobrium. At some point in the conversation, I said that I would make Christmas Gifts for Yoko Ono: paper...

Art Is Food

Art, Zine

Art Is Food, Feed the People. Art is Food, Eat Something. These have been the mantras of ARTSHOP since 2005. The phrase comes from a poem I wrote and read at an Art Town Meeting in Burlington, Vermont in February 2005. So many people asked me for a copy of the poem...

Art Product

Art, Ongoing Projects

I produce art products as a means of exploring further questions of object and meaning: How does an object have meaning? Why does an object have meaning? And what role do objects play in our lives? North Americans are consumers by nature. We acquire stuff. In doing...

ARTSHOP

Cultural Work, Ongoing Projects

How does an object have meaning? Why do we own objects? How do we consume, acquire, or collect objects? How does art become or maintain its relevance? These questions are central to my practice. I started ARTSHOP in 2004 as a way of organizing, exhibiting, and sharing...

Hold Me

Art

Hold Me 30″x80″; acrylic paint, spray paint, print transfer, and collage on reclaimed door; 2007 STATEMENT I have long enjoyed with the patina left by aging posters and bulletins and graffiti that accumulates on walls in a city. In 2007, my partners and I...