Still Life with Soda
2012
Corn meal, corn syrup, soda, vintage feed sacks, cotton, tyvek, landscaping fabric, air drying clay, electric candles, grain grinder, stainless bowl, meat tenderizer, wood, magic sculpt, wainscoting, wallpaper, carpet
Installation View
Buffet
2011
HD video
3:00
Performed by Julie Ann Nagle and Rob Swainston
Directed, filmed, and edited by Matthew C. Wilson
Consumption was filmed in Vermont during my residency at Seven Below Arts Initiative, Burlington City Arts
Colonel
2011
Wood, foam, corn, vintage feedsack fabric, steel rod, cotton fringe.
6’ x 3’ x 1.5’
Weighting the Sea of Sinking Margins
2011
Adrift in Current Patterns, 2010
Velour, Tyvek, polyethylene cargo barrels, gold leaf size, gold space blankets
4’ x 15’ x 8’
Breakdown of a Long Chain, 2011
Aqua resin, mahogany veneered foam, polyethylene, tree, gold space blanket, Bakelite plastic, sandbags, paint, wood.
16’ x 5’ x 6’
Breakdown of a Long Chain
2011
Aqua resin, mahogany veneered foam, polyethylene, tree, gold space blanket, Bakelite plastic, sandbags, paint, wood.
16’ x 5’ x 6’
Adrift in Current Patterns
2010
Velour, Tyvek, polyethylene cargo barrels, gold leaf size, gold space blankets
4’ x 15’ x 8’
Antiphonal Duetting
2010
Digital print
24” x 36”
Geometries of Progress (Installation Views)
2009
From Left:
La Philosophe, His Own Petard, Mme L.
La Philosophe, 2009
Polyethylene barrel, motor, saltwater, sand, poplar, oak, tennis balls, shovel spade, steel, paint
8’ x 5’ x 1.5’
His Own Petard, 2008
Lead, tin, nylon ripstop fabric, ribbon, fan
5’ x 5 1/2’ x 6’
Mme L., 2009
Polyethylene, blown glass, glow in the dark magic sculpt, acrylic, black sand, paint, wood, and light.
5’ x 6’ x 11’
Mme L.
2009
Polyethylene, blown glass, glow in the dark magic sculpt, acrylic, black sand, paint, wood, and light.
5’ x 6’ x 11’
La Philosophe
2009
Polyethylene barrel, motor, saltwater, sand, poplar, oak, tennis balls, shovel spade, steel, paint
8’ x 5’ x 1.5’
Carved wooden bones, saltwater, and sand rotate inside the barrel in a machine I built to simulate the ocean, turning them into drift wood. The two parts of the sculpture, the figure and machine, face each other in a narrative of self digestion.
His Own Petard
2008
Lead, tin, nylon ripstop fabric, ribbon, fan
5’ x 5 1/2’ x 6’
The upended lead bust of a chemist anchors his form. The fabric is inflated by a fan in the chest cavity, hoisting the figure by his own petard.
Dribble
Pattern paper, glow in the dark paint, paint pen
HighSchool Hook-Ups
2009
Pattern paper, paint pen, acrylic
Trials of Flight
2008
Digital Print
20” x 24”
This photo was created as a staged reenactment of a flight and crash landing during an aeronautics experiment conducted by balloonist Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe.
Variable Precision
2008
40” x 40” x 24”
