One of my early videos, the noShampoo ad, is being shown in the Roschtigen Hund in Aurau Switzerland.

Here’s the press release :

The short films are rich, experimental and innovative.

The diversity of the work is impressive. Animated drawings, powerful audio-visual effusions, poetic-critical histories, sensual messages and gadgets distributed in 27 works show the latest work of art and film-makers from the region and beyond.

Nadine Black poses as found movements, Roger Ensign keeps us in front of the mirror, Trudy Andres shows us as news of a special kind, Susanna Brändli blows everything in the air, Christina Speer captures the spirit of Nietzsche, Jeanine Osborne asks for the time, Sara Stäuble portrays a fantastic figure, Daniel Kanaan advertises with irony, Daniel Jeseneg flies to the moon, and Bruno Schlatter travels through Vienna.

In addition to the performance in the foyer works by Beate Gördes, Frank Lauber, Nadine Black and Ingrid Wyss are shown.

The program is available at www.blackboxonline.org

My latest works, Plant Pod Prototype, will be on display at the Marseille Project Gallery on the 18th of September at the exhibition futureproof. I also wrote the exhibition text, an excerpt of which follows:

18-9-97030 Documentary evidence from the 3rd millenium

Dear friends,

Marking the 95,000 anniversary of the end of days, we take a look back at recent findings from the archeaological team mpg000010.

mpg000010 includes two experts in the field of archaeology. Dr. Kay, with her background in propheteering of the 3rd millenium, teamed up with Dr. Kanaan, an informatic archeaologist, to discover just exactly what the world was like before the end of days.

Text continues at mpg

invitation here

I’ll be showing many self portraits and portraits of artists at the next show at Marseille Project Gallery, among them this life size self portrait from 2000.

Life Size self-portrait 2000 Acrylic on canvas

The show is called Artists Portraits and it’s on the 24th of April 2010 at 17:00 at the Marseille Project Gallery, directions here.

Having finished the portrait of my wife, Lira Kay, I thought I would write about the second part of the portrait process, the creation of the painted portrait.

We started out in Part I: the drawings.  And here are the various stages of this portrait.  In total, it was 6 sittings, 5 of which are shown.

State 1

Lira Kay: state 1

I find it disturbing to see portraits that are started and stopped in one session.  The idea of getting it absolutely right so quickly seems to show two things: that there is an ‘absolutely right’ and that it would be so easy to find.  I think the portrait process is a journey, and my journeys involve all sorts of turns and fumbles and questions.

State 1 here is an example of that.  The skin tone has little to do with the hair tone here, which in turn has little to do with the background.  The heaviness of the skin tone sheds light on the importance I place on the face. Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to all who came to the exhibition! For those who didn’t make it. Here are the photos…