Curatorial Project: Electric Breath at Emerge 2017

I am curating a screening of experimental videos and animations for the Emerge Festival 2017 at ASU Feb. 25 (with head-curator Dehlia Hannah). Electric Breath is a screening that traces Frankensteinian themes in recent experimental video and animation. From monstrous avatars struggling to thrive in, or escape from, virtual worlds to animal-headed humans narrating a drowned city, the screening presents a forecast by turns satirical, dreamy and dystopian. Artists include Katie Torn, Carla Gannis, Marina Zurkow, Eva Davidova, and Hilary Harp + Suzie Silver.

Phoenix Nasty Women Planned Parenthood Benefit

I co-organized the Phoenix Nasty Women exhibition and Planned Parenthood benefit Jan. 14, 20 + 21 with Colleen Donohoe, Patricia Sannit, Laura Dragon and Erika Hanson. We were one of over ~30 sister shows to the originating Nasty Women benefit at the Knockdown Center in NYC. Our PHX version raised over $19,300 for Planned Parenthood Arizona. In addition to the work on the walls (we received ~320 donated works from Arizona artists) we hosted a dance performance (1/20) by Nicole L. Olsen and DanceArtists and a Nasty Women reading (1/21) curated by Deborah Sussman. Here’s our website: phxnastywomen.wordpress.com
Here is an interview with me about the show on our local NPR station: kjzz.org/

Push Comes to Shove: Women and Power

My animation The Chthulu and the Final Girl is on view as part of Push Comes to Shove: Women and Power exhibition at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art until Jan. 8, 2017. The show was curated by ASU Professor Muriel Magenta and SMOCA Director and Head Curator Sara Cochran.

Story Problems at Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY

My installation Story Problems will be on view all summer through Oct. 1 as part of the Wassaic Project Summer Show 2016 in the Hudson River Valley, NY. The five animations are looping on iPads in small wooden boxes placed in the stairwell between floors, as second below.

Jeema el Fna Moroccan Travel

Just got back from a week in Morocco with my sweetheart Mitch Miller. We took very few photos as it is too good to photograph. I love that country. I couldn’t help but pose with this owl and pigeon in Place Jeema el Fna. Their owner was a very gentle man who didn’t ask for money – though I gave him some.

My C-Print included in Wassaic Winter Benefit

This animation still from Kingdom 5KR, as a DiBond mounted C-print, was recently included in the Wassaic Project Winter Benefit raffle at the Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY (February 2016). Kingdom 5KR is the newest of my series of short animations using ready-made 3D objects – boats, cars, pills, booze, pretty people – as metonymies for leisure and privilege. Kingdom 5KR is a super yacht owned by Al-Waleed bin Talal, member of the Saudi Royal Family; the boat is named for his investment company The Kingdom Holding Company, his lucky number and the initials of his children. Waleed purchased the boat from Trump, who called it the Trump Princess. The yacht was originally built in 1980 for Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, and named for his daughter Nabilia. It was used in the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again and referred to as the Flying Saucer.