buck and doe
runner
lucky rabbit head, little green man
kickflip sequence
butterfly
B2
bear
duck
squirrels
bird (blue), birdie (orange)
sugarhouse
Rhino
Pinky and Mr Green
nosegrab
bluebird, mushrooms
puppies
Primitive Man
pyramid of the rabbit
pyramid of the chicken
robot meadow
handplant
pigeon
In my visual experience Pac-man came before Donald Judd,
Carl Andre or even Mondrian. For me Broadway
Boogie Woogie will always be an homage to Pac-man. My current work explores
the visual connection between minimalism and early video games.
Video gaming and minimalism arrived at the same visual
conclusion through different means and by opposite intentions. Early video
gaming, or pixel based imaging, did not intend to be simple or minimal. It
intended to communicate as much visual information as possible. The images are
minimal for lack of technology. Minimalism on the other hand, created objects
that were minimal by design. These two separate movements had quite opposite
intentions with very similar visual results.
My current work explores this connection between early pixel
based video game images and minimalism. I limit my image making to the same
constraints that governed early pixel based technologies. I use a minimal
number of squares to create an image. The images are formed into shaped steel
canvases. The works I create are constructed using materials and techniques
traditionally used to build minimalist sculpture. Unlike the minimalist art
object my objects are image based and lack a perfect finish. The paint is
distressed to give a visual clue that these are not just minimal objects. The
worn appearance acknowledges the history of ideas and movements that preceded
these objects. It also distinguishes them from those same ideas and movements. The
result is a pixel based abstraction.
