Artist Archive
Photography
I supplement my love of movie street photography with occasion forays with a 35mm, 4″ x 5″ and digital still camera.
2024 | Art Work
Duped Negatives
Duped Negatives is a collection of collages made from scanned 35mm film organized in five series described below. Prints are variable sizes 30” x 40” and smaller (horizontal and vertical). They can be exhibited singly, by series, or in a group made up of pieces chosen from each series. My longtime engagement with the materiality of […]
2024 | Art Work
Lightbox Collages
Lightbox Collages are made by gluing transparent images to 16″ x 20″ boxes that emit light. Images are culled from my original 16mm and 35 mm film outtakes, as well as photographs I recorded on the street, old film strips, and hand painted slides bought on the street in Montevideo, Uruguay. Each piece combines new and old, […]
2024 | Art Work
Morning Addition
Morning Addition is a series of collages using images from newspapers, old books, farmers’ almanacs, paper shooting targets and original photographs to create strange and uncanny combinations. What arrives on the doorstep and found on the street mix together to boil quotidian ephemera into an unanticipated broth. The images are captured with a handheld ‘wand’ scanner and printed on […]
2024 | Art Work
Celluloid Series
Celluloid Series is comprised of digital collages, made from hand painted 35 mm film. Most are printed on 17” x 22” paper, but sizes are variable.
2024 | Art Work
Class Slides
Class Slides is made up of painted and digitally collaged glass slides bought in a lot in a junk store in upstate New York. They can be printed in various sizes, projected digitally, or animated live using an antiquated magnifier/projector and a laser flashlight. This latter effect is evident in my 2023 film Long ago, Far Away. Long […]
2024 | Art Work
So Many Ideas Impossible To Do All
(2019) Digital, color and b/w, sound, 11 min. Selected Screenings: National Gallery of Art, 2019
2024 | Films
A Better Relationship With The Unknown
(2022) Super 8 to digital, color, sound, 18 min Selected Screenings:
2024 | Films
A Song For Some Reason
(2023) Super 8mm, digital, color, silent, 18 min. Selected Screenings:
2024 | Films
New Beginnings and False Starts
(2021) 35mm, Digital, color, sound, 2 min. Selected Screenings:
2024 | Films
X Y Chromosome Project at Court Tree Collective (with Lynne Sachs)
Court Tree Gallery, 2018
2019 | Installations
Lost Notes from Home live performance with The Lost Orchestra
Live musical performance to 5 Mark Street films, Downtown Community Television, 2017 The Lost Orchestra:Bradford Reed (King Missile III)Algis Kizys (Swans, Of Cabbages and Kings)Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop)Geoff Gersh (Blue Man Group, Black Lodge, Pastor of Muppets)
2019 | Installations
A Train Ride Can Be a Tracking Shot
Multimedia performance/presentation, Court Tree Gallery, 2016
2019 | Installations
Morning, Noon, Night; Water, Land and Sky
(2019) Digital, 16mm, color and b/w, sound 17 mins.
2019 | Films
Military Veterans Bring Value to the Classroom
Military Veterans Bring Value to the Classroom By Mark Street Published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Spring 2014 I have followed with interest the national conversation about the important role of colleges in easing the transition of military veterans into the classroom. I applaud efforts like the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the Yellow Ribbon program, […]
2014 | Writing
OUT OF THE THEATER AND INTO THE STREET
Multimedia installation, Court Tree Gallery, 2014
2014 | Installations
ADOLFAS MEKAS (1925–2011)
ADOLFAS MEKAS (1925–2011) Published in The Brooklyn Rail, Summer 2011 Adolfas Mekas—filmmaker, teacher, and co-founder (with his brother Jonas) of the influential magazine Film Culture—died on May 31, 2011. The Brooklyn Rail asked Mekas’s fellow filmmakers, colleagues, students, and friends to share their thoughts and reminiscences about his life and work. I came east to […]
