In the Studio – 04262013

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Joel

Things are happening in the studio this week. My Cartoon Violence series is about midway into production. Here are some images.

Are the Super Mario Brothers rotting my child’s brain? The curatorial aspects of parenting

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Joel

I am the parent of three small children the first of whom has reached the age of media awareness. He is moved by advertising in a way that I remember from my own childhood, but still cannot believe. My wife and I have tried to combat this by controlling what he watches and limiting his [...]

Of note on Monday – The Marvel Superheroes

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Joel

I have been doing some research on comics that have been adapted for animation and I could resist posting some episodes from Marvel comics first foray in to television. If you watch nothing more than the opening themes I guarantee you will be overcome with the joy of having sampled a slice of a simpler [...]

Today in the past – Academy Awards edition

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Joel

Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day Lewis were not the first artists to try and capture the essence of Abraham Lincoln. I tried my hand at it a few years ago in the form of a two channel video. The title of the work is 04-14-65. It is set just a few minutes before the paths Lincoln and [...]

Today in the past – Presidents day edition

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Joel

It has been while since I pulled any of these out, but in the not so distant past I made of series of two channel videos featuring presidents and their assassins. In honor of Presidents day I thought I would pull out the Kennedy – Oswald pairing. This was by far the most popular of the pieces I [...]

Today in the past – I ended up with a cat

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Joel

Who am I and how did I become this person? Good questions to ask when you are making art. I made this piece back in 2005. My goal was to question all of the lies I may or may not have told myself. Not bad.

In the studio

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Joel

I have been busy working on a new series of paintings. They are created using same tools animators would have utilized during animations golden age. I will have more to say about this as I get farther along in this process, but for know I thought I would post a few of the set ups [...]