About Donald
Education:
1989-1993 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA
1992 Advanced Painting, The Museum School, Boston MA
Awards:
1993 2-d Fine Arts Award, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA
Exhibitions:
2014 The Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park NJ, group show
2014 Gallery 788, Baltimore
MD, Fun A Day, group show
2013 Creative Alliance Main Gallery, Baltimore MD, Neither Here Nor There
two person show with Kate MacKinnon… more
1989-1993 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA
1992 Advanced Painting, The Museum School, Boston MA
Awards:
1993 2-d Fine Arts Award, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA
Exhibitions:
2014 The Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park NJ, group show
2014 Gallery 788, Baltimore
MD, Fun A Day, group show
2013 Creative Alliance Main Gallery, Baltimore MD, Neither Here Nor There
two person show with Kate MacKinnon… more
Jump to a project:
sculptor, painter, installation artist, experimenter
my life as an artists
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p1010161.jpgFive inches square swimming pool.
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p1010130.jpgFive inches square.covered with tar.
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Fun-a-Day project 2013Fun a day is an event where artists make a project to start the new year. I chose to make a found object figure, one for each day of the month of January.
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p1010008_1.jpgInk on crayon on paper
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p1010006_1.jpgInk on crayon on paper
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p1010173.jpgCarved wood with in set wrench. Painted with acrylic paint.
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p1010171.jpgCarved wood painted and covered in wax. five inches square.
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DNAOne piece from a series. All the pieces in this series are five inches square. This one is carved wood that I painted and filled the voids with watery paint and allowed to evaporate.
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20140125_153359.jpgMy art is a collection of artifacts abandoned in the world around me. I collect this plastic, metal, wire, string, yarn, toys and other discarded objects because these things have value, value that may have been used up by someone else. I feel like I am never not making art. Collecting, sorting, cataloging and organizing what I find is a form of art making in and of itself. When I exclusively painted I was always looking at how layers could be exposed and covered up and exposed again. The sculpture I make now is made in layers. My first layer is finding interesting objects. My second layer is organizing them by color, texture and size. My third layer is sorting them to fit into the object I want to make. My fourth layer is what you see, the sculpture itself; sometimes its recognizable and sometimes its more abstract. All of the artifacts I collect and assemble represent the overflowing sea of consumed possessions that were once meaningful to someone and have purpose again. My process of has slowly evolved. I approach art making as a painter first. Weather I am using paints or multi-colored objects I am always thinking about contrast, texture, color, and process. Paintings I had created became more textural and eventually I incorporated artifacts I had collected. From there I began making pieces entirely of detritus. First I made spheres, then the spheres became heads, then I made the Junk Warriors. Eventually it made sense to me that these things could become their own environments, the balls were just miniature versions of the installations that I wanted to make.
balls, balls, balls
re-use project
the thing that got me started making the assamblages that I make
the thing that got me started making the assamblages that I make
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p1010141.jpgmaking balls. collecting things from my life. things that I find where I work. when I am out walking on the street. things that other people don't want and have put out to be collected. things that would otherwise be thrown away. I take these things and make them into something new. tying things together with wire and string. forming a ball. it feels good in your hand.
Artomatic installation
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Dear Lauryn Displayed in Times Square New YorkThis painting was painted using Metallic Gold Paint in Honor of Lauryn Hill. This painting was the Curators choice to display in New York during the Art Takes Time Square Exhibit 2012 in Manhattan.
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Muse Annie II - From WithinHere I've pulled out three pages from the content of one book package, the acknowledgements page (listing where some of the poems have been published, such as AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW and PARAGRAPH, for example), the title page, and one of the (prose) poems. The lavender piece of construction paper is from the 70s and came in a package still sealed, the orange piece is from the 50s and came gently bound but not sealed in a package of 12 and the "buff" (as it was described) piece of construction paper is also from the 70s.
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img_0107-7.jpgCloud made up of a grouping of balls
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Muse Annie II - The BackHere is one example of what the book description given in the Project Overview looks like "on" the back of the book (really just packaged after the last piece of construction paper, the last "page" of the chapbook). Here I've printed it on vintage wallpaper.
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red installationArtomatic is art event held in Washington D.C. The location they used to hold the event in was slated to be gutted or torn down so their was a lot of freedom to experiment with the space. I used this opportunity to experiment with installation ideas. I was able to do a wall covering treatment and use the whole space as a sculptural environment. A home for the sculptural elements that are also included in my space.
more from Neither here nor their
show at the Creative Alliance
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20131212_151457.jpgAccumulated objects contained in wire mesh.
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20131211_195002-2.jpgConstruction made of various found materials and pieces I created to compliment the found pieces. Vintage aquarium filled with collected dust and debris. Aquarium base is filled with collected scrap wood. Top portion is sculpted ridged foam insulation to appear like stone formation with woodland scene featuring an abandoned house.
Creative Alliance : Nether here nor there
Two person show with painter Kate McKinnon
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14851500132_9b7ed4b9b4_o.jpgFor the show "Neither here nor there" at the Creative Alliance I created a sight specific installation. The idea behind this installation was to create a man made land mass out of man made objects. I collected and organized items by color and arranged them to give the appearance of stratum. I had a rough plan but I allowed the structure to grow organically as I made use of the elements I had collected.
other stuff
side projects that don't fit in a listed project
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fat line bundledLengths of line collected from beaches in Provincetown Massachusetts
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line bundledCollected lengths of line that come from fishing boat and wash up on the beach. Colected from beaches in Provincetown Massachusetts.
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20151216_072821.jpgButtons. One of the many things I collect. This seemed like a good way to make use of a lot of them. Thimk of all the hands that touched them before I got a hold of them.
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