My “artist statement,” written as a prompt for generative AI:*
Artist, writer. Sampling, remixing, mashing. Mixed media collage, painting. Ink, acrylic, oil stick. Vintage flea market ephemera. AI blendings. Barbed wire, dried plants. Memory, time, hauntings. Solastalgia. Melancholia in the anthropocene. Kitschy paranormal poetics. The music of the spheres. Portals. Ghosts, haunted houses. Children’s art. Mourning and wonderment, disquiet and delight. Fabulist and magical realist fiction. "Dark, dreamy fairy tales in the tradition of Russell Edson and Donald Barthelme.” Cosmographies, diagrams. Found poetry. Snippets of text from personal magnetism manifestoes, odd medical histories, treatises by clairvoyants. In the style of Derek Owens.
Tiny bio:
Teaching since the 1990s, first in Harvard's Expository Writing Program and then at St. John's University in New York. A commitment to experimental writing practices and arts-based research. MA and Doctor of Arts from University at Albany. MFA from the Transart Institute in Berlin, accredited through Plymouth University, UK. Living on Long Island with wife and dog.
Selected Exhibitions
Digital art on exhibit at Future Fest, Orillia Opera House Eco-Art Exhibit “Your World Soon”, Sept 26, Ontario
“One Is Underwater in the Heart of the Wood”, Mixed Media exhibit, Part Crowd Gallery, Toronto, July 1 - August 31 2024.
“Corona,” “Tree Sprites, Greenlawn, Dusk” in Instructor’s Exhibit, Art League of Long Island, August-September 2024.
“Presidential Portrait, #45” on display in benefit for Harriss/Walz, Gallery Gaia, Brooklyn, NY, August 3 - August 31, 2024.
“Two May Keep a Secret”, “Caesura” on display in Collage Exhibit 2024, Art League of Long Island, April 27 - May 10, 2024.
Collage making workshops offered at Art League of Long Island, Nassau County Museum of Art, South Bay Art Association, and Independent Art Society: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall 2024
3rd Annual Member & Guest Group Show, Pictor Gallery, Manhattan, NY - November 28 - December 23, 2023.
Small Works Exhibit. Jag Gallery. Key West, FL. November 3 - November 26 2023.
Beyond Earth. Ten Moir Gallery. Online / Kansas City, MO. September 2023.
Instructor’s Exhibition 2023. Art League of Long Island. Dix Hills, NY. August 12 - September 21.
The Big Picture Exhibition. Art League of Long Island. Dix Hills, NY. June 10 - July 7, 2023.
Art and Poetic Text. Cultural Center of Cape Cod. South Yarmouth, MA. April 11-29, 2023.
61st Long Island Artists Exhibition. Art League of Long Island. Dix Hills, NY. March 4 - April 7, 2023.
Down on Paper. Vestige Concept Gallery. Pittsburgh, PA. February 18 - March 19, 2023.
New Data--New Dada. Stone Valley Arts. Poultney, VT. September 16 - October 23, 2022.
After the End of the End of the World. Two-person show with Rachel Epp Buller, Regier Gallery, Bethel College. North Newton, KS. February - March 2021.
Creative Climate Awards/Human Impacts Institute. Manhattan. Nov 6 - Dec 4, 2019.
Collage. Site: Brooklyn Gallery. Brooklyn. June 14 - July 13, 2019.
Correspondence(s): Past Present Future. Exhibition with Rachel Epp Buller. Flutgraben artist space, Berlin. August 2018.
Retrospectiveness: the Art Cards of "Derek Owens." Flutgraben artist space. Berlin. August, 2018.
I ran the artist statement above through the GenerativeAI wash a number of times & got this.