FRAMEL73 - ART SHOW

FRAMEL73

Art show at the Frameshop in Over-The-Rhine Cincinnati in 2017.

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I’ve wanted to make things for as long as I can remember, even when I wasn’t completely sure what those things were supposed to become.

A lot of the work in this show came from simply continuing to experiment, repeating ideas, changing materials, and allowing one piece to lead to another.

Acrylic Paint with Tyvec and spray paint. Paper Laser Cut. Screen Print Posters.

The work combined acrylic and spray paint, Tyvek, laser-cut paper, and screen printing. Some pieces were built by layering different papers, while others began as laser-cut forms that I later reused as stencils, repeating and rotating them to create larger patterns, symmetry, and a sense of space.

Making work by myself was only part of what I wanted. I also wanted to bring enough of it together to share as one experience, and that took time. The show became a reason to keep producing, experimenting, and eventually step back and see how all of those individual ideas related to one another.

Mt. Adams was one of the first Cincinnati neighborhoods that stayed with me. From the top of the hill, the city, the river, the architecture, and the landscape come together in a way that made me want to interpret the place visually rather than simply photograph it.