My main purpose in life and in my work is to help people experience the time and space of art. I also do this through consulting.
My approach to art has always been multifaceted. I see consulting as an extension of my art practice. The main focus of installation art - to bring viewers into the work and to give people an experience - is the main strategy I use in my art practice, teaching, and writing.
I think in the macro. What do I mean by that? I focus on systems, the details that make up systems, and how things work. As well as identify change.
My role, as an artist teaching in and outside of art for the past 12 years, which includes architecture and design, is unique. I utilized my skills; creating unique visions from art education and being an artist. As an artist I draw from the unknown, artists understand this space and work with it -the certainty- is that there are many possible creative solutions to assist in the success of the project at hand.
In my core seminar, "Installation Art & Architecture," which I taught to graduate and undergraduate students internationally for 8 years, I focused on how artists created change historically and in terms of the main goal of installation art to facilitate the experience of art.
This same distilling of the experience of art is evident in the subject matter in my writing. In “Bringing People Together, Wong Kar-Wai & Hong Kong” I wrote about my one of my favorite filmmakers, Wong Kar-Wai and how his films gave audiences an experience of Hong Kong in an artful and intimate way. Wong Kar-Wai drew from his memories as a child in the 1960s and immigrant in Hong Kong. In, ‘A Sense of Urgency: Artists, Leadership and the Architecture of Detention,” I focused on how contemporary artists protested and facilitate reforms in a corrupt and tragic system of patronage that was linked to detention centers for refugees.
I write and publish in art & architecture regularly, and have exhibited photographic and video installations for the past 20 years. I am on the editorial board of the "International Journal of Education in Architecture and Design" based in Istanbul.
I have taught across the disciplines of architecture, art, and design, history & theory and studio in undergraduate and graduate programs at Parsons in NYC, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, San Francisco Art Institute, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, and College of Fine Arts/University of New South Wales, Sydney.
I completed my PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2010. I’ve exhibited my art installations and public art in New York, Brooklyn, Sydney, Madrid, London, Toronto, and Melbourne.
Selected awards, include: City of Sydney, Art & About ,Public Art Award, 2012, in collaboration with Stephen Collier Architects, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant and The University of Sydney - EIPRS/IPA- international post-graduate award (2006-2010).
My approach to art has always been multifaceted. I see consulting as an extension of my art practice. The main focus of installation art - to bring viewers into the work and to give people an experience - is the main strategy I use in my art practice, teaching, and writing.
I think in the macro. What do I mean by that? I focus on systems, the details that make up systems, and how things work. As well as identify change.
My role, as an artist teaching in and outside of art for the past 12 years, which includes architecture and design, is unique. I utilized my skills; creating unique visions from art education and being an artist. As an artist I draw from the unknown, artists understand this space and work with it -the certainty- is that there are many possible creative solutions to assist in the success of the project at hand.
In my core seminar, "Installation Art & Architecture," which I taught to graduate and undergraduate students internationally for 8 years, I focused on how artists created change historically and in terms of the main goal of installation art to facilitate the experience of art.
This same distilling of the experience of art is evident in the subject matter in my writing. In “Bringing People Together, Wong Kar-Wai & Hong Kong” I wrote about my one of my favorite filmmakers, Wong Kar-Wai and how his films gave audiences an experience of Hong Kong in an artful and intimate way. Wong Kar-Wai drew from his memories as a child in the 1960s and immigrant in Hong Kong. In, ‘A Sense of Urgency: Artists, Leadership and the Architecture of Detention,” I focused on how contemporary artists protested and facilitate reforms in a corrupt and tragic system of patronage that was linked to detention centers for refugees.
I write and publish in art & architecture regularly, and have exhibited photographic and video installations for the past 20 years. I am on the editorial board of the "International Journal of Education in Architecture and Design" based in Istanbul.
I have taught across the disciplines of architecture, art, and design, history & theory and studio in undergraduate and graduate programs at Parsons in NYC, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, San Francisco Art Institute, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, and College of Fine Arts/University of New South Wales, Sydney.
I completed my PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2010. I’ve exhibited my art installations and public art in New York, Brooklyn, Sydney, Madrid, London, Toronto, and Melbourne.
Selected awards, include: City of Sydney, Art & About ,Public Art Award, 2012, in collaboration with Stephen Collier Architects, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant and The University of Sydney - EIPRS/IPA- international post-graduate award (2006-2010).
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