Selected Portfolio
BALM Meeting Hall.
Installation (2022).
Communist Manifesto Distribution Project (BALM).
Site-specific signs placed around town offering free Communist Manifestos locally (2021-present).
Cat without a Grin (BALM)
Mixed media collage, prints, paintings, and drawings, with coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp (2021).
Ohio Erasure Castle (center). Installed at Artspace 304 (Carbondale, Illinois)
Acrylic, post-it notes, coffee, clay slip, photocopies, ink, marker, Sharpie, stickers, mixed media on canvas tarp (2018).
Failed Cosmos
Acrylic, ink, stickers and coffee on canvas tarp. Based on a poem by Tish Markely (2018).
Rahab (Revolt of the Swivel Chairs)
Acrylic, stickers, marker, photocopies, post-it notes, buttons, coffee and mixed media on canvas tarps (2017-2018)
The Last Barista (Revolt of the Swivel Chairs)
Acrylic, marker, photocopies, stickers, post-it notes, buttons, coffee and mixed media on canvas banner with wood and swivel chairs (2017-2018).
Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires (Revolt of the Swivel Chairs)
Acrylic, stickers, marker, photocopies, post-it notes, buttons, coffee and mixed media on canvas tarp (2017)
Key/Legend (The Barista Who Could See the Future)
Acrylic, coffee, cotton, stickers, glitter, wig-hair, Sharpie and mixed-media on canvas (2017).
After You Leave (13 Baristas)
Acrylic, coffee and gum on canvas (2015).
13 Baristas (salon installation at Des Lee Gallery)
Acrylic, coffee, gum on canvas with 500 copies of the 13 Baristas newspaper (2015).
Lucy Parson and the Sans Culottes (The Barista Who Could See the Future)
Acrylic, coffee, cotton, stickers, glitter, wig-hair, Sharpie and mixed-media on canvas (2016).
Dead Paintings VI
Paintings buried in the earth for eight months, exhumed, with one panel used to create an iron mold (2012-2014).
Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain (BALM)
Mixed media collage, prints, paintings, and drawings, with coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp, based in part on Tish Turl’s "Stink Ape Resurrection Primer," Alexi Tolstoy’s novel Aelita and the film adaptation, and Aimé Césaire's Journal of a Homecoming (2021).
Arrhythm Nation (BALM).
Acrylic, ink, marker, charcoal, graphite, prints, stickers, drawings on sheet music, city maps, canvas, found material collaged with wig hair, glitter, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp (2022).
Spilled Kiosk / Image Pickers. Installed at Artspace 304 (Carbondale, Illinois)
Stickers, post-card stand, cards (2017-2018).
The Barista Who Disappeaered
Painting and installation at Artspace 304 (Carnbondale, Illinois, 2018).
Revolt of the Swivel Chairs (installation at the Cube Gallery Las Vegas)
Acrylic, coffee, stickers, Sharpie, post-it notes and mixed-media on canvas with stickers, greeting cards, swivel chairs, post-card tower, duct-tape, cooler, calculator, lathes and placards, flag poles, and other materials (2018).
Luries (Revolt of the Swivel Chairs)
Cat shit, gold paint (2018)
Central Committee (2071)
Acrylic, stickers, marker, photocopies, post-it notes, coffee and mixed media on canvas tarps (2017-2018)
The Barista Who Could See the Future (first installation at Dollar Art House)
Acrylic, coffee, cotton, stickers, glitter, wig-hair, Sharpie and mixed-media on canvas with furniture, found objects, McDonalds, prints (2016).
13 Baristas (Saint Louis installation)
Acrylic, coffee and gum on canvas with found objects (2015).
13 Baristas (Brett Wesley/Las Vegas installation detail)
Hanging light, coffee cups, acrylic and coffee (2015).
13 Baristas (Brett Wesley/Las Vegas installation detail)
Acrylic, coffee and gum on canvas with furniture, mixed-media, hanging light, coffee cups, acrylic and coffee (2015).
Kick the Cat (installation at Project 1612 in Peoria, Illinois)
Acrylic, coffee, Sharpie and mixed-media on canvas with cups, mattress, found objects, post-cards, etc. (2015)
Dead Paintings X
Paintings installed in an earth trench for eight months (2014).
A Painter of Our Time (installation at the Sam Fox "Safe Space")
Acrylic, cotton, concrete, newspaper, ash and Sharpie on canvas with photographs, wood, newspaper, found objects, hanging lights (2014).
Dead Paintings X (detail)
Paintings installed in an earth trench for eight months (2014).
America's Spiritual Heroes (detail)
Acrylic, oil, cotton, ash and concrete on canvas (2014).
Burger King Parking Lot’s Wife (BALM).
Salt packets, glue, pedestal (2021).
BALM Slow Apocalypse Room
Installation (2022).
Social Resurrection Task-Prints (BALM)
Digital prints, acrylic, cotton and ash, clothes line, clothes pins (2019-present).
Wounded Sickles (Wounded Tool Library - BALM)
Sickles, bandages, paint, peg board, collaged poems (2019).
New Lubberland (center). Installed at Artspace 304 (Carbondale, Illinois)
Acrylic, post-it notes, coffee, clay slip, photocopies, ink, marker, Sharpie, stickers, mixed media on canvas tarp (2018).
Erasure Chancellor / Carlo Montemagno Eats Brains
Acrylic, ink, photocopies, stickers, post-it notes, coffee and mixed media on canvas tarp (2018).
Revolt of the Swivel Chairs (installation at the Cube Gallery Las Vegas)
Acrylic, coffee, stickers, Sharpie, post-it notes and mixed-media on canvas with stickers, greeting cards, swivel chairs, post-card tower, duct-tape, cooler, calculator, lathes and placards, flag poles, and other materials (2018).
The Healing Properties of Post-Industrial Debris: IH Bricks (The Barista Who Could See the Future)
Acrylic, coffee, glitter ash, stickers, wig-hair, Sharpie on canvas with bricks from the abandoned International Harvester plant in Canton, Illinois and wood (2017).
Red Mars (salon installation at the Kemper Museum/Saint Louis)
Acrylic, coffee, meteorite dust, glitter, stickers, Sharpie and mixed-media on canvas with LED sign, chair, telescope and 500 copies of a Red Mars comic (2016).
Governor's Daughter/Misplaced Otters (Red Mars)
Acrylic, coffee, meteorite dust, glitter, stickers and mixed-media on canvas (2016).
Athena Correctional Institute for Juveniles (Red Mars)
Acrylic, coffee, meteorite dust, glitter, stickers, Sharpie and mixed-media on canvas (2016).
13 Baristas (Brett Wesley/Las Vegas installation detail)
Acrylic, coffee and gum on canvas with furniture, mixed-media, hanging light, coffee cups, acrylic and coffee (2015).
Utah Debt Collector (The Barista Who Could See the Future)
Acrylic, coffee, cotton, stickers, glitter, wig-hair, Sharpie and mixed-media on canvas tarp (2016).
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