Felt Personality at GF Contemporary 2025
/Felt Personality Blue/Green and Salmon, 48x36” each. Hand-dyed cut wool felt on stretched linen. Question responses from OK Cupid data set categorized on the Murray scale of needs.
Felt Personality Blue/Green and Salmon, 48x36” each. Hand-dyed cut wool felt on stretched linen. Question responses from OK Cupid data set categorized on the Murray scale of needs.
Two Moodjam pieces on back left wall, 86 in x 86 in each, capturing your mood in color.
Kiln fired, matte finish glass. Rear piece is 84x84” in 25 panels, left wall are individual glass works each approx 10”x14”x 0.25”thick. Patterns are future algorithms capturing daily activities.
“Head in the Clouds” exhibition at the national museum in Canada documented how digital technology has impacted culture. It was the height of the pandemic, border with Canada was closed and was never able to see or document the installation. The museum created a 3D virtual walkthru. I took a screen grab of the two “Felt Personality” works 6ft x 5ft each.
Student music composition, translated into a different type of music transcription, painted as mural on gallery wall 10 ft x 50 ft, plus two felt works 6x5ft each.
The ‘What We Eat’ interactive project was live projected on massive shapes created in string by Google Arts and Culture at the annual Climate Conference in Madrid 2022.
500 ft underpass and 16 signs covered in upholstery. Visitor data and the composite colors of 16 most instagrammed murals in Austin. Photos by Philip Rogers.
Hand-drawn, laser cut panels of 300 lb arches watercolor paper with deckled edge, based on a location tracking pattern. 7.5 ft x 12.5 ft. Plus image of the work just after the installers finished.
“Time Minus”, 2020, 50 in x 26 ft with four dancers captured during a performance in the gallery during the run of the show. Time Minus gathered time tracking data during the pandemic and eliminated, work, sleep, school and commuting — what you see is everything remaining for 50 days.
Top image from left to right, Frick 7 Days, 2 drawings, Elahi large red/green and Frick wood piece on back wall. Bottom image from left to right, Frick Blue collage, 2 drawings, Elahi video in back space, and Frick 7 Days. 2019
Frick works are on yellow/green on center right wall, and deep blue with diagonal color on far right wall. Show curated by Nicole Lampl.
The entire show contained works about time tracking. The back wall above, was wood blocks and leather, on the right in both images were cut wood blocks.
Chat Metadata, 9.5 ft x 65 ft, wood and laminate samples, from how a team interacted over chat with each other over 30 days.
Moodjam, 2012, 12 ft x 12.5 ft, Abet Laminati countertop samples on ACM panel. Imagine your mood captured every 6 seconds and displayed as color.
96 hanging hand-drawn, laser cut drawings 22x30 in each and the cut detritus on the floor beneath. Colored lights and a path to walk inside the drawings to simulate the feel of all your data hitting you at once. Photo by Rino Pizzi.
One section of the show was a site-specific installation of cut wood pieces from eyeglass boxes, this was during installation with artist on the ladder. 2nd piece is “Language of Sleep” 8 ft x 10 ft plus floor component.
Making Tracks, 2012, 10 ft x 43 ft, wood, paint pen and laminate samples with location tracking of physical movements over 12 months.
At Yaddo in 2010, made the decision to abandon the work I brought with me, deciding to fill the empty studio with pattern. Used the white and brown cardboard boxes from the kitchen trash to cut and install the entire studio over a month in 2010.