Winogradsky Rothko
Week 6
September 11, 2004
Installation: Ithaca, NY USA
Transforming Colorfield
Photo by Johnna MacArthur
1973
Fact.
2006
Revilo and Nancy Wightman Pointing to ~1973 on Population Chart
Self Portrait
Fascist Fashion Show
2003
Performance: Venues Throughout the NorthEast USA
Political Satire on a CatWalk
Photo by Carrie Chalmers
Garden of Eden
2007
Installation: Bygstad, Norway
Scientific Depiction of the Garden
scientific graphics re-tell the story of genesis
Nickle and Dimed
2003
Group Show: Ithaca, NY
Currency Lures
Currency from around the world are flattened by a coal train and turned into fishing lures.
Surd
2002
Installation: Ithaca, NY
Ecological Footprint
Depiction of one Cornell University student's land area needed to sustain his or her paper consumption.
Corn and Beans
2004, Stolen
Installation: Ithaca, NY
Homage to Seed Librarians
Native American heritage corn and bean seeds are sealed in testtubes and hung next to a monocropped field of corn.
monument
2007
Installation: Columbia, SC
Democracy of Decomposition
Cotton seed hulls, coffeegrinds, and oak shaving wastes build this corinthian style column of mushroom re-distribution.
200 cans
In Process: 2005 to present
Installations: public libraries in the NorthEast USA
Edible Art
Home grown heritage tomatoes are canned and given away in exchange for a description of how the recipient will use this source of energy.
Resume
Highlights:
Visualizing Meaning Documentary
Visualizing Meaning Website
Carbon Trading Website
Fine Art Adoption Valentines
Recently Published:
Renewable Fuels Roadmap and Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Supply for New York, Funded by NYSERDA, Spring 2010
"Winogradsky Rothko: Bacterial Ecosystem as Pastoral Landscape," Journal of Visual Culture, Volume 7(3), December 2008
Coming Soon:
a perpetual motion machine blog
Deep Thought: The only difference between myself and a wool blanket, is time.
Email: jw93 at cornell dot edu
Clapper
Abject Light
2008
Route 120, Plainfield NH
200 road reflectors lit by passing headlights
a roadside 'Clapper', if you will.
Visualizing Meaning: Copying the Masters
Global Warming Bed
2007
Bissel Gallery: Ithaca, NY
Domesticating Scientific Graphs
Milk and Cookies
Various Editable Installations
2010
Installation: Ithaca, NY USA
De/Compositions
My Grandmothers cookies are disappeared.
Visualizing Meaning: Vector
Panel 2
2006
Installation: Ithaca, NY USA
Line Drawings
Dr. Ed Salpeter (Physics Department, Emeritus) standing with his own graph of the frequency of supernova's that are responsible for the heavy elements of the periodic table.
Artist Statement:
As a biologist, I continually observe transitions in the organic and inorganic world. This dynamic flux between matter and energy informs my artistic exploration. In the destruction and creation of what was to what is, I am curious how ideas are conserved, mutated, transmitted, or lost. Matter is conserved, the form of it changes. While I may conjure material ‘objects’ with my time and effort, the object, myself, and our current context embody untold histories of molecular play. I try to capture the visual language in biologic processes that mark the embodiment of time.
I like scientific graphs as observation-tabulated number paintings and I like biological organisms to paint with their synthesized pigments according to ecological parameters. But sometimes I get lost and I don't know when a thing begins and when it ends. Logic is beautiful because it only happens sometimes.
My fundamental line of inquiry: why are we not ecologically rational? My work explores the transition of biophysical states that co-evolve manifestations of culture and ecosystems.
Methods: Process, Ecological, Conceptual
Modes: Installation, Performance, Poetry
Media: Living Pigments, Scientific Data, Puns