Forest's Edge (2020)

These are two paintings in a series completed in 2020.
 
The forest edge is a margin between two worlds. It is a transition zone between light and shade, the highly cultivated and the wild. It can serve as an entrance, but can also be dense and hard to penetrate.

TRANSCEND Solo Exhibition: Gallery Blue Door March 20 - April 24, 2021

Painting has always been my way to not only interpret my world, but also to transcend it. When in my studio and deeply immersed in the process of painting the chaos of our times falls away. These works, created mostly in 2020, were inspired by the natural surroundings on Hoopers Island, the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge, and the Chesapeake Bay Region - places that provided tranquil sanctuaries throughout a turbulent year. Current events (Covid, frequent manmade and natural disasters, political upheavals, mass shootings) however, were ever present in my mind and heart as I worked each day.

The Square Project: Part Two

The Square Project documents various square forms I find on my many explorations of the city. The urban landscape is full of squares: buttons, hatches, logos, signs, and windows, to name but a few. There is also the market or public square, where commercial and social activity is concentrated, such as with Harvard Square, Times Square, and Trafalgar Square. I photograph squares wherever I go, in whatever city I visit, and organize them in a grid format, recalling the urban layouts from which they were found.

It's Nice Out Here

Toeing the line of digital producer and curator, It’s Nice Out Here is a show I curated and developed a new exhibition framework for. As an online exhibition where most anything is possible through implied fictions illustrated through manipulated photography, video, and text, I “installed” the artist’s work by photoshopping (or, digitally inserting) the artist’s images into emptied press photos from international galleries and museums. The work is all real, but exists as digitally rendered documentation images of one huge imagined exhibition.

Experiencing the Beauty of Baltimore's Inner Harbor

For years I took the Inner Harbor for granted from the perspective of it's beauty and utility. I attended the opening in 1980 and spent several years with a compelling view from my IBM office in the 80's and 90's.  But it wasn't until I began to take my camera along on my many visits to the harbor across the previous decade, capturing many compelling and breathtaking shots with my Nikon D7100 that I realized what a gem Baltimore's Inner Harbor really is.

HAUNTED KOREAS: Dreaming Unification Protest Peace

The traveling exhibition "Haunted Koreas: Dreaming Unification Protest Peace" showcases Mina Cheon's development of her most recent POLIPOP Art. Between 2019-2025, Cheon's series of new works have been exhibited at the Ethan Cohen Gallery, the Inaugural Asia Society Triennale, The Korea Society in New York, American University Museum, and Asian Arts & Cultural Center at Towson University. Each exhibition is newly curated and includes different and new works, it is an accumulative ongoing exhibition project.

Gallery Institute

Toeing the line of artist and curator, I started Gallery Institute — a contemporary arts organization — as an extension of my practice. Gallery Institute looks and feels like a real art institution through it's slick website and high-resolution documentation, and performs as a sort-of idealized art institution by paying its artists, offering full transparency, and being driven by it's goal to help artists realize their largest and most expansive dreams.

Ruins of Baltimore: Part Two

Since moving to Baltimore five years ago, I began exploring the working class neighborhoods of East Baltimore, and photographing the many vacant buildings found there. While all cities have a certain level of crumbling infrastructure, Baltimore has more than usual. I find a strange sort of beauty in these dilapidated edifices. They present a window unto the past while provoking visions of an as yet unknown future. Who used to live here? Where have they gone? Further still, what will fill these spaces down the line? Will urban redevelopment forever erase these structures?

Vessels (2020)

"Vessels" is an ongoing series of paintings depicting pieces of the web of life dependent on the ocean. The painted forms of the organisms I've chosen to study are filled with water, the fundamental source of all life. Our shared ancestors came from the ocean, which remains a basis of interconnectedness for all beings on Earth. Coevolution over eons has made these organisms in this web interdependent on each other in untold ways; without any one of them, the balance is thrown off for the others.
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