March 5-20, 2026 at Elgin Street Studios
excerpt from HOT SPOTS: Viewing Guide
It is my hope that this handout will provide answers to all of your questions.
It is easy for me to tell stories. It is tough to tell stories through art. Physical things can feel closed-off, instrumental, inexpressive. But everything in this world, ourselves included, has a choice to make. We can add to its glamor and mystery and throw our bodies into the unknown, or simply take up space.
Glamor means different things to different people. Unwanted cake, internet broadcasted holidays, old movie stars seen through coats of vaseline. Dazzling wealth. The cult of the powerful and the charisma of brute force. Glamor also suggests venality, shiny things, wadded up aluminum catching sunlight in the mind of a grackle. Chickens drowning themselves in their reflections in bowls of water. The wages of a sinful life. Glamor can be frontal or furtive, inverted and insidious, living in the folds of double meaning and evocative misdirection. A photograph of Dolours Price in a thick black scarf. Emma Goldman’s profession of the importance of dancing. Joan Didion’s evanescent portrayals of the Manson Family girls. Che Guevara in a bald cap importing revolution to Bolivia. The global echoes and body count resulting from CIA mastermind James Jesus Angleton’s appropriation of TS Eliot’s phrase “wilderness of mirrors.” En fin, the contemporary world’s tickets on the bloodbank installment plan for several seasons of the cold-blooded theater of Vlad Surkov, the sinister plum-faced director of the modern world. So, yeah, glamor. It’s not real. But it’s not, not real.
The work in this show goes back as far as August 2025. As a casual view will confirm, I work with unassuming materials: color, paint, lettering, string, fabric, cardboard, grommets, sandpaper, wood bits. Sure, this is a world of beauty pageants, but imagine the possibilities if we include the overgrown and the underfed, the weedy and the oafish in the pageant. Art, all art, is about getting away with it. And, getting away with it is a liberation from not getting away with it.
Full Statement here
HOT SPOTS, Works Exhibited
“L’Arc de Julia Child,” 2026, polyester flag, gold spray painted plastic fruit, wood, wood moulding, applique, paint, paper mache, string, approx 9 x 6’
“Dry Drunks,” 2026, acrylic and latex on aluminum cans, site & quantity vary
“Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful,” 2025, polyester flag, 5 x 3’
“Cop Warmth Self Harm,” 2025, t-shirt, grommets, wood, string, aluminum cans, approx 7 x 3’
“No In Out Privileges,” 2025, canvas, latex and acrylic paint, approx 40” x 36”
“I Hope You’re Real Happy,” 2025, wheatpasted posters, acrylic, washers, string
“White Pillar/I’m Alan Partridge,” 2025, printed t-shirts collected and worn by the artist, 3 cardboard boxes, grommets, string, tape, approx 5 x 2 x 2
“Studded Left,” 2025, wheatpasted posters, missing persons, approx 6 x 5’
Video Program
“This Guitar Is For Kicking,” 2025, overdubbed archival interviews with Angela Davis, Jim Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain, and Jimi Hendrix
“VIPS,” 2026, smoke machine, projection, music by Tex Kerschen
“I’ll Be Your Mirror,” 2026, video montage of unsynchronized vocal performances by members of the Revolutionary Love Choir (featuring Erika Thrasher, Tex Kerschen, Max Tolleson, Jessica Ross, Daniela Hernandez), song by the Velvet Underground
“Choir Be Your Mirror,” 2026, vocal performance by the Revolutionary Love Choir (featuring Erika Thrasher, Tex Kerschen, Max Tolleson, Jessica Ross, Daniela Hernandez), song by the Velvet Underground
“The Road of Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom,” 2025, polyester flag, 5 x 3’
“Long Hair For President (psychedelic with Hollis dots),” 2025, polyester flag, 5 x 3’
“Fuck Them All,” 2026, acrylic on canvas
“I Am Flung Into This Body Like a Well,” 2026, tie-dyed canvas, pigment, acrylic, and latex, wood, made in collaboration with Danny Kerschen, approx 8 x 5’
“Long Hair For Days (Mao),” 2026, polyester flag, 5 x 3’
“Black Pillar (Sharing is Caring),” 2025, t-shirts collected and worn by the artist, 3 cardboard boxes, grommets, string, tape, approx 6 x 2 x 2
“Tall Pillar,” 2026, 4 cardboard boxes, beaten by the artist and the artist’s wife, tape, approx 8 x 2 x 2
“Walmart Buttholes,” 2026, acrylic on canvas, 5 x 6’
“Comrades,” 2025, polyester flag, 5 x 3’
“Feral Dog Trying to Train Itself,” 2025, acrylic on canvas