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    • you don't deserve me (2012)
    • for Smithson (2010)
    • rapture (2008)
    • grids (2008)
    • when you're a boy... (2005 and ongoing)
    • circumference (2005)
    • early painting installations
  • public projects & exhibitions
    • in the name of love (2019)
    • the color of remembering (2019)
    • Three Deliberate Grays For Freddie (2018-9)
    • Love Letter to a Library (2018)
    • A Partial List... (2016)
    • there is no one left to blame (2013)
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Top Ten Bullshit Corporate Terms that Negatively Affected Art and Education in 2014

December 31, 2014 in criticism, everything after

I call bullshit….

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Matthew Gamber, Blue Birds Exhibit, Gelatin silver print, 2010 from the series Any Color You Like.
Matthew Gamber, Blue Birds Exhibit, Gelatin silver print, 2010 from the series Any Color You Like.

ONE QUESTION - Matthew Gamber

December 29, 2014 in One Question

Matt Gamber can make you look…

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Tags: Artists, Carsten Holler, deCordova, Marshall McLuhan, Matthew Gamber, Peter Bahouth, photography
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Split screen from MSNBC during the start of the uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri, 24 November 2014
Split screen from MSNBC during the start of the uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri, 24 November 2014

Social Media does not believe in tears....

December 01, 2014 in everything after

Posting that you care is not caring….

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #Gamergate, 12 Street Uprising, Beavercreek, Cleveland, detroit, Elizabeth Lauten, Ferguson, Law and Order, Social Media
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Useful Drawings #5

November 17, 2014 in Useful Drawings

These will come in handy….

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Tags: drawings, Kojo Griffin
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Halo 2002 oil on panel 16 x 16 inches
Halo 2002 oil on panel 16 x 16 inches

I guess I am supposed to be "grateful for the opportunity"?

November 16, 2014 in Exhibitions, galleries, hypocrites

Really, it’s not like I know anything about my work….

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Tags: Anne Harris, Artists, exhibitions, Gregory Gillespie, ICA, Maud Morgan, painting, PSG Framing, Samsøn, self-portrait, skowhegan, studio practice, Susanna Coffey
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Entrance to Robert Gober's mid-career retrospective at MoMA
Entrance to Robert Gober's mid-career retrospective at MoMA

Robert Gober at MoMA - The Body Manifest

November 15, 2014 in Uncategorized

Gober unleashed.

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Tags: Artists, exhibitions, MoMa, Robert Gober
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Still from FACES, a film by John Casavettes (Fred Draper and Gena Rowlands)
Still from FACES, a film by John Casavettes (Fred Draper and Gena Rowlands)

Relevant Pictures - Part 1

November 06, 2014 in Relevant Pictures

Works that help(ed) me make my work…

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Tags: Casavettes, David Nolta, Faces, film, Fred Draper, Gena Rowlands, John Marley, MassArt, painting, studio practice
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A passer-by considers my untitled project at Dlectricity 2014
A passer-by considers my untitled project at Dlectricity 2014

A moment to remember

November 03, 2014 in Uncategorized

Detroit+Electricity=DLECTRICITY!

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Tags: Artists, Astro Coffee, detroit, Dlectricity, Maison LaFleur, MOCAD, Slows Bar BQ, Trinosophes, What Pipeline
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Installation view of Another Utopia, at LaMontagne Gallery, Boston
Installation view of Another Utopia, at LaMontagne Gallery, Boston

ONE QUESTION - Andrew Mowbray

March 26, 2014 in One Question

The sculptor ANDREW MOWBRAY answers ONE QUESTION.

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Tags: Andrew Mowbray, Artists, Boston Center for the Arts, craft, dad, feminism, gourds, green, Janine Antoni, LaMontagne, masculinity, men, sculpture, sustainable
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Detroit Rising

February 18, 2014 in Detroit, everything after

Home. My heart. My hometown.

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Tags: Bleeding Hearts Design, DIA, Diego Rivera, graffiti, Heidelberg Project, MOCAD, NEKST
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Useful Drawings #4

February 10, 2014 in Useful Drawings

These come in handy.

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Tags: Christopher Carroll, drawings
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Bull in the Ring, 2008 Performance video - banned drill, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Produced by Brad L Cooper WITH the players of LCFL semi-pro football Photo by Marshall Astor
Bull in the Ring, 2008 Performance video - banned drill, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Produced by Brad L Cooper WITH the players of LCFL semi-pro football Photo by Marshall Astor

ONE QUESTION - Shaun Leonardo

February 01, 2014 in One Question

Shaun Leonardo answers ONE QUESTION….

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Tags: Art Matters, Artists, athletics, Bob Flanagan, El C, Franklin Furnace, Harvard, LMCC, Matthew Barney, performance, race, Radical Presence, Shaun Leonardo, skowhegan, Studio Museum Harlem
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Double Painter 3 graphite, acrylic, oil, alkyd, spray paint on paper 50” x 100” 2013
Double Painter 3 graphite, acrylic, oil, alkyd, spray paint on paper 50” x 100” 2013

ONE QUESTION - Craig Drennen

January 29, 2014 in One Question

The brilliant Craig Drennen answers ONE QUESTION

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Tags: Alice Neel, Andre 3000, Artists, Craig Drennen, Douglas Fogle, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Iris Clert, Jean-François Lyotard, Meryl Streep, Outkast, Picabia, Raphael, Rene Ricard, Saltworks, Samsøn, skowhegan, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Lawson, Timon of Athens, William Shakespeare
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Useful Drawings #3

January 25, 2014 in Useful Drawings

Ryan. I loved him so. And now he’s gone.

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Tags: Artists, diagram, drawings, recovery, Ryan Widger
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Useful Drawings #2

January 24, 2014 in Useful Drawings

This shouldn’t make sense, but….

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Tags: furniture, gathering, Peter Jackson Hussey, Structure Design and Build, table
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