Emergency Box Painting

For those times you are experiencing the death of painting. Emergency Box Painting  by Ric Kasini Kadour sculptural object each 5.75″ x 1.25″ x 1″ acrylic on paper in pine box 2013 unique SEE...

Twelve Days of Christmas Gifts for Yoko Ono

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 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

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...

Hold Me

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...

Love Guns & Other Weapons of Affection

In April 2013, I started listening to “Grenade” by Bruno Mars: Easy come, easy go, that’s just how you live Oh take, take, take it all but you never give Should’ve known you were trouble from the first kiss Had your eyes wide open, why were they open? Gave you all I...