(image by Aurora Tang)

My new exhibition (Shifting Baselines) at the Santa Fe Art Institute (click here)

Dolls from the Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe, NM

@ the CLUI now (click here)

I think that landscape is often an escapist genre. But, even if you start with an environmental idea, it is not what you profess; it is what you express that counts. That’s my problem with most political painting. It is not very convincing. What do your behavior or your actions demonstrate? What do they express? 

--Rackstraw Downes

My lecture at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena on October 19 (click here)

(William Powhida)

(Anthony Discenza)

My project for the first issue of Arid: A Journal of Desert Art, Design, and Ecology (click here)

The Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and if you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

--Tino Sehgal

The recently decommissioned Evergreen Pulp Mill on Humboldt Bay

Platform marking the position of a utility cable under Humboldt Bay

Site of the former Simpson Plywood Company, Humboldt Bay

Today a region is generally understood not as a politically or geographically delimited space, but one determined by stories, loyalty, group identity, common experiences and histories (often unrecorded), a state of mind rather than a place on a map.

--Lucy Lippard