Further Wax Works

Projected with the marching film (previous post) on the walls over the pieces.

Smoking towers. The fire alarm went off the night of the show, fire department came complete with hook and ladder.

In the Time Spent Scraping Together the Things that Matter the Most

PowerPoint Presentation #2

In the Studio

One of a series of powerpoint text presentations I am working on.

In the Studio

Away for the Holidays. A look into the studio and at the chalkboard wall for now. The final image is the last small-chalkboard entry,
I was in a foul mood.
Happy Thanksgiving.

And congrats to Jordan of Growing Nation, and his Wife Marlee and their daughter Bella for their newborn son/brother Townes Rian Stempleman, 9lbs and some ounces.

Tom Burtonwood, Holly Holmes

Tom and Holly are flourishing even further up in Chicago lately.
I had the pleasure of seeing the Price War bombs in their beginning stages of development, it's wonderful to see them now, hanging ominously above viewers heads.

Consuming War

November 4 – Janury 20, 2008, Gallery 1
Works by Lynda Barry, Wafaa Bilal, Mary Brogger, Adam Brooks, Burtonwood & Holmes, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Fred Holland, Harold Mendez, Michael Rakowitz, Ellen Rothenberg, Edra Soto, Paula White and Dolores Wilber.
Curated by Barbara Koenen




Price War! (preview image), dimensions variable, Polyurethane and filament line, 2007


Installation at the Open Studio Project, Public Art Program, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2006.