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March 17, 2008

BFA Show Installation

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition opened on Friday. All of the graduating seniors have been working there booties off for the last week to put up their work in SAIC's Gallery 2 space. You can see my pre-plans in the small drawing of the space. My work was a collection of phone conversations between the women in my family. The conversations concerned the people, their lives and the goings on of my small Missouri hometown. Each conversation sound piece could be listened to through rotary dial phones. And on the walls were the phonebook pages of my hometown with all of the people mentioned in the conversations circled and marked according to various stipulations. Also, I set up the space with a telephone table with a contact/address book....one closed, one open. I was lucky (or maybe unlucky) enough to have an installation room. Right now, I only have my before and beginning install shots of my room. I'll post the after shots as soon as I can. And we'll see if my drawing and description of work adds up to what you're imagining.


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Thats my Mom, with a very nice deer in the headlights signature pose.

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Doing a little planning of the space before I paint the walls.

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This is Matthew, my hometown BFF triple E (bestfriendforeverandeverandeverandever). He helped (I mean masterminded) with all of the tech stuff...like getting the phones wired to work. He's super cute in his phone talkin' stance.

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And finally, here's my drawing. This worked great because it allowed my advisors to know exactly what I meant when I was asking for help or advice. I recommend this as far as installation goes. It really is a life-saving must.

March 2, 2008

Deb Sokolow

So last weekend I went home, to Missouri for a visit. On my way to the airport to head back to Chicago, mi madre and I stopped in Kansas City to see SAIC MFA alum, Deb Sokolow's solo show/installation "You are one step closer to learning the truth" at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Deb's works are stories woven of conspiracy and paranoia, and are structured similar to the "Choose Your Own Adventure" children's books. She uses a bunch of stuff: pencil, pen, paint, and correction fluid to make the stories look like maps and diagrams with a journal entry writing style. They're usually done on huge sheets of paper, but this particular mystery was put directly on the wall. It was about someone trying to ruin the famously delicious KC style BBQ sauce by putting youth enhancers in it. Each story, including this one, is pretty hilarious.

Here are some photos. Sorry, they're pretty horrible and blurry. They didn't allow photos so I had to be sneaky and take them really quickly.

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Thats David Copperfield. Thats me.


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