Title Welcome to Machine. 1994. One of the paintings which I am most proud of. The painting features two controller memory cards from a Bell Atlantic (Verizon’s precursor) data center which was connected to the early Internet when the cards failed. Future archeologists could dump the memory from the registers and see some of the earliest web traffic (not really but who knows – maybe someday). The painting has the dual meaning of Pink Floyd’s song and my prediction that the Internet would envelope us. Hence the title. I think history has clearly validated both meanings of the painting.

midnight moon

small family

Title: Cemetery for modern art. No schools would ever rise after the Pop Art and the Minimalist schools. The painting of empty oil tubes and dried out brushes bathed in industrial house paint made this prediction in the early 1990s. The world had moved onto digital mediums as the leading drivers in thinking (movies, computer art etc).

Title: I used to be a little boy. When we are children we harbor unrealistic hopes. As we age these childish dreams are set aside in favor of reality. The glitter and mirror shards was meant for me to look into and realize the world had moved far away from the childish aspirations I had harbored.

Title: Sarajevo – auctioned for Special Olympics. The torn Olympic rings sit amongst two computer circuit cards intended to resemble a Norden bombsite. The Norden bombsite was the technology the allies used in WW2. A place where the modern Olympics had been held torn to shreds was reminiscent of insanity of WW2.

self portrait painting

alter

Title: IBM vacuum tubes. 1994. Vacuum tubes rising up both directionally, as a graph, and rising up from the plaster becoming increasingly visible. I used an older technology to make the point of dynamic for technological innovation. It is barely visible at first and then comes clearly into focus like the microprocessor and the Internet.

Title: Gallery rejection letters. Same theme of the object artwork I used to be a little boy. I knew – I just didn’t accept it til the end of 1994.

invitation to the exhibition at the Austrian embassy

Title: Wishing you were hear. 1994. Four computer circuit cards and mirror shards buried in think industrial paint. So thick it cracked. Like an archeological find at Mt Vesuvius… and here was misspelled as hear as I was asking can’t you see or hear or any of this?

1994. Circuit cards swimming in industrial paint. Given where I worked in the computer industry I was very cognizant that these machines had begun to define the world we would inhabit in future.

Title: Five computer circuit cards facing off against a single circuit card. 1994. Given where I worked in the computer industry I was very cognizant that these machines had begun to define the world we would inhabit in future. People thought I was totally delusional at that time.

Title: Still life for Herbert – auctioned for charity. Plaster on a wood substrate painted in oil paint.