Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
2022
The five-story-tall Circular Dimensions x Microscape, constructed with more than 25,000 feet of PVC tubes, presents a visual spectacle peering into the artist’s ongoing exploration of water and the history of the desert. When the sun goes down, the magnitude of the pavilion amps up with the artist’s ever-evolving audiovisual performance Circular Dimensions presented in 57.1 channels of L-ISA immersive hyperreal sound by L-Acoustics. Inside the bandshell-shaped pavilion contains a laboratory where scientists and artists generate experimental “video paintings” by manipulating water, salt, barnacles, and algae from the Salton Sea under microscopes and projecting the activity in real time inside the pavilion’s “nucleus.” Meanwhile, a soundscape of field recordings and industrial rhythms resonates through the structure’s circular tunnels, elevating in intensity from day to night. Microscape gives mammoth new context to his familiar materials, including reclaimed irrigation tubing and a “mutant” cast resin aloe vera — “a surviving seed” from the desert’s ancient sea.
Site-specific installation & performance series
November 1-4, 2023
Commissioned by Laguna Art Museum
Art + Nature 2023
Laguna Beach, California
installation / solo exhibition
September 10-17, 2016
In partnership with Building Beyond Together
Villa Angarano, Andrea Palladio
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Architectural intervention with living aloe vera, recycled polypropylene
tanks, found branches, soil, construction paint, ultraviolet radiation
solo exhibition
August 4 - September 30, 2018
Lancaster Museum of Art and History
Lancaster, California
Group Exhibition: Rien n’est vrai, tout est vivant
August 16 - October 31, 2021
Live performances / October 22 + 31
Chemistry glass, barnacles, sea salt, phosphorescence, marking paint with ultraviolet illumination
Curated by Christopher Yggdre
Fondation LAccolade - Institut de France
Paris, France
installation / solo exhibition
February 15 - May 5, 2019
In partnership with
Cathedral City Arts Commission
Cathedral City, California
Orchard branches, irrigation tubing, living aloe vera, palm fronds, living pencil cactus, mason line, barnacles, flagging tape, construction paint, ultraviolet radiation
Barnacles, sea salt, desert sand, phosphorescence, steel on panel
illuminated by ultraviolet radiation with transitioning time cycles
2022
sculpture/painting
2018
Sealed 1953 government issue water cans, barnacles, organic farm soil, synthetic sand, sea salt, cast acrylic, steel, acidic conversion
Government issue water canisters, sea salt, construction paint, water dispenser, illuminated by ultraviolet radiation
2022
solo exhibition
July 27 - August 11, 2019
Curated by Biennale Urbana
Castello 925
Venice, Italy
Farming soil, sea salt, beach sand, snail shells, tree roots, natural pigments, construction paint, living aloe vera, grass, digital microscope, LED panel, phosphorescent sand, ultraviolet illumination
solo exhibition
August 22 - October 23, 2013
Palm Springs Art Museum
Palm Springs, California
installation environment / audiovisual performance
October 13 - 15, 2017
Circular Dimensions at Desert Daze
Institute of Mental Physics
Joshua Tree, California
installation / solo exhibition
Artere-A
Guadalajara, Mexico
May, 25 - 30, 2015
4 channel audio surround on asynchronous loop cycles, tap water, vinyl tubing, excavated earth, beach sand, water bottle, living aloe vera, palm stems, coconut stems, fishing line, galvanized water buckets, construction paint, ultraviolet illumination
audiovisual performance
December, 2, 2017
Live microscopic video painting
AVSU, Bermuda Dunes, California
installation environment / performance
Curated by Biennale Urbana
In partnership with
Castello 925 + Altelier della Aqua
Fondamento Madonna Dell’ Orto
Venice, Italy
August 23, 2019
sculpture / photograph
2020
Government issue water can with phosphorescence
Archival pigment prints on aluminum
installation / audiovisual performance
September 14-15, 2018
The PASEO Project
Curated by Agnes Chavez
Kit Carson Park
Taos, New Mexico
installation / group exhibition
Desert Island
Curated by Epicenter Projects
Coachella Valley Art Center
Indio, California
February 24 - April 20, 2017
Tree root, Salton Sea tilapia skeletons, barnacles, living aloe vera, vinyl tubing, cinder blocks, tap water, acrylic bowls, desert sand, fishing line, oscillating fans, found chair, construction paint, ultraviolet illumination
video installation
2014
Summit, AIR
Eden, Utah
Intervention with video activation on PVC pipe
intervention / photograph
2013
Displaced branch with construction paint
Indio Hills, California
Archival pigment print
photograph
2017
Riveria Keys, Salton Sea, California
Archival pigment print
painting / photograph
2006
Intervention with construction paint on water
Archival pigment print
City of Industry, California
installation / solo exhibition
2009
Marks Art Center
Palm Desert, California
painting
2018
Two miles of twine, chrome, polymer on canvas
with flagging tape, property stake
installation / group exhibition
March 21 - April 30, 2011
Rojo Nova
Museo Casa Franca-Brasil
Rio de Janerio, Brazil
Found branches, synthetic branches, video projection, fish bowls, tap water, synthetic sand, vinyl tubing, fishing line, construction paint, ultraviolet illumination
installation / sculpture
2018
Cast tilapia skeleton, chrome, sea salt
photograph
2012
Bermuda Dunes, California
Archival pigment print
photography
2010
Archival pigment montage comprised of 25 prints
76 x 100 in. (193 x 254 cm)
video painting
2018
Barnacles, fish bones, desert sand, sea salt, chrome on composite, audio with LED panel
38:05 minute video loop duration
photograph
2015
Salt Creek, Salton Sea, California
Archival pigment print diptych
installation / group exhibition
December 1 - December 30, 2011
Remains In The End Times
Curated by Jesse Lee Stout
The Popular Workshop
San Francisco, California
Fish bowls, water, irrigation tubing, LED light box, mason line, barnacles, storage bags and dayglo enamel illuminated by ultraviolet radiation
intervention / photograph
2008
Geothermal earth with construction paint
Archival pigment print
installation / solo exhibition
2014
Juanita Salazar Lowe Gallery
Imperial Valley College
Imperial, California
photograph
2016
Rome, Italy
Archival pigment print
installation / group exhibition
July 12 - 22, 2010
Rojo Nova
Museum of Image and Sound
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Found branches, mason line, fish bowl, tap water, organic soil, water bottles, freezer bags, tree pods, construction paint, ultraviolet illumination
photograph
2011
North Shore, Salton Sea, California
Archival pigment print
intervention / installation
2014
Summit, AIR
Eden, Utah
Cellular tower with irrigation tubing, tree stems, construction paint, ultraviolet radiation
photograph
2017
Mexico City, Mexico
Archival pigment montage comprised of 3 prints
25 x 40 in. (63.5 x 101 cm)
intervention / installation
2012
Indio Hills, California
Fish bowls, construction paint, tap water, desert sand, ultraviolet illumination
installation / group exhibition
2008
Mapping the Context
The Arts at Context
Indio, California
Endoscopic video feed, irrigation tubing, irrigation filters, fish bowl, water, branches, palm tree stump, tree root, construction paint, found skeleton
2018
Intervention with flagging tape
Site Left: North Shore, Salton Sea, California - 06.01.18
Site Right: Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California - 02.03.18
2 channel asynchronous video loop diptych
Click to play video
photograph
2017
Riviera Keys, Salton Sea, California
Archival pigment print
Drone pilot: George Tsangarakis
intervention / installation
2006-2017
Site-specific interventions activated throughout Southern California
Salton Sea tilapia skeletons with construction paint, ultraviolet radiation
photograph
2016
Salt Creek, Salton Sea, California
Archival pigment print
intervention / photograph
2013
Intervention with tree root, construction paint
Indio Hills, California
Archival pigment print
intervention / installation
2016
Curated by
Biennale Urbana & Elena Giulia Abbiatici
Teatro Marinoni, Venice Italy
Sea water, steel, sand, branches, water bottles, living snails, construction paint illuminated by ultraviolet radiation
installation / audiovisual performance
2014
Video projection, live audio composition, LED monitors, tree root, barnacles, branches, found skeleton, canvas and enamel illuminated by ultraviolet radiation
Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, California
photograph
2019
Fractured road pavement with cracked earth
Mecca Hills, California
photograph
2012
Duratrans print with LED lightbox
intervention / photograph
2005
Displaced asphalt excavation
Archival pigment print
audiovisual performance
April, 1, 2017
Curated by Epicenter Projects & Perpetual Dawn
Box Canyon, Mecca, California
photograph
2017
Salton City, California
Archival pigment print
painting
2017
Barnacles, chrome, desert sand, polymer on canvas
60 x 48 in. (152 x 123 cm)
painting
2019
Acrylic, iridescence, metallic pigment on canvas
70 x 52 in (178 x 132 cm)
painting
2019
Acrylic, sea salt, polymer, on panel with ultraviolet radiation
60 in (152. 5 cm) diameter
painting
2014
Acrylic, desert sand, polymer, phosphorescent pigment, construction paint on panel
36 in. (91.5 cm) diameter
painting
2013
Acrylic, paper fiber, polymer, day-glo, phosphorescent pigment on panel
48 in. (122 cm) diameter
painting
2016
Acrylic, desert sand, phosphorescent pigment, polymer, day-glo on panel illuminated by ultraviolet radiation
36 in. (91.5 cm) diameter
painting
2018
Acrylic, iridescent enamel on panel
36 in. (91.5 cm) diameter
painting
2013
Acrylic, oil stain, construction paint, oil enamel on panel
48 in. (122 cm) diameter
painting
2013
Acrylic, enamel, polymer, metallic pigment on panel
48 in. (122 cm) diameter
photograph
2012
Salton City, California
Archival pigment print
painting
2014
Acrylic, enamel, desert sand, polymer on panel
48 in. (122 cm) diameter
photograph
2011
Salton City, California
Archival pigment print
