Gallery 406 at Arts West, Elon University
February 9 – March 6, 2015
Exhibition Guide

FREE STANDING WALL PRINTS, 2001-2015
All gridded wall images are pigment prints on Japanese paper. Each sheet has been printed twice on a wide format archival inkjet printer. The first layer on each sheet is from a scan of newsprint backing paper that held a variety of marks from years of re-use. The inkjet print of the newsprint is meant to be as faithful to the original newsprint as possible. The second layer is a found and edited photographic news image that is meant to be iconic of the particular news event. Those events are as follows:
Fukushima (Tsunami)
Katrina (House Markings)
Drone Attack (Syria)
9/11 (Twin Towers Rubble)
BP Oil Spill (Deepwater Horizon Explosion)
Ferguson (Mike Brown Grand Jury Decision)

VIDEO, 2008/2014
The digital video, GRUB, was begun in 2008 in collaboration with Joey Korein and Kacie Erin Smith. It was re-edited with new footage and sound in 2014. The video hypothesizes about the effects of cultural and media images on identity development. It is 2 minutes and 15 seconds long and loops continuously. Watch on YouTube here.

NEWSPAPERS, 2001-2015
The newspapers on wooden rods are actual newsprint sheets used in the printmaking process. They show the residual traces of different print processes and images. Many of the sheets have then been printed on digitally using a wide format inkjet printer. The text comes from different sources – newspaper headlines, Sacred Harp lyrics, personal journals, and poems – each with a unique sense of authority, presence, and duration. Each newspaper is loosely themed and developed around the particular marks found on the sheets. The newspapers are meant to be taken down off the wall and leafed through on the tables provided.