deconstruct reorder conjoin repeat

deconstruct reorder conjoin repeat is an attempt to blend the static and strictly structured sounds of my electronic works with the tone colors and rhythmically unconstrained nature of my acoustic works. In it, acoustic sounds of instruments float in and out of an electronic texture, providing a more complex tone color and a sense of melody to an otherwise pure electronic sound. Interrupting these sections, the instrumentalists improvise in a transitional and contrasting manner.

China paintings from Xinjiang Province

This series of paintings are based on experiences I had and the images I took in 2017, while exploring the city of Urumqi at night in the Xinxiang Province of China, an autonomous region. I was traveling with a group of American artists/ambassadors exhibiting our work in several museums in Beijing and along the Silk Road. I was priviledged to exhibit these paintings the following year at the China National Academy of Painting and the Fine Arts Museum of Urumqi.

Excuse Me, I Have Work to Do

Part of a series of lyrical digital vignettes of fictional objects. A work about ornaments and decoration, pulling from corporate stock objects used in an advertising day-job. The objects made for 'Excuse Me, I Have Work to Do’ are investigations into what-ifs.A show I want to make, but can't, and would never. A stone made of molded coal, burned from... A bouquet from.... eh..... nevermind...

PROVISIONAL LANDSCAPES

The history of the Earth is legible as a layered stratagraphic chronicle of millions of years of events. Our planet is a massive physical document of cosmic exchanges, traces of the stages of developing life, shifts in bodies of land and water, and monumental mass extinctions.

ANTHROPOCENE MONUMENTS

ARTIST STATEMENT

My research examines the designed and found icons of the American character in search of our underlying values and our aspirations as individuals and as a society. These ideals are visible as monumental forms, but also camouflaged in mundane ubiquity.

Christmas Retrospective 2018

This work was originally set in  San Ysidro Church, an adobe church, in Corrales, NM. I was inspired by the church decorating periods throughout history and the work of Tiepolo in particular, who I researched in travels through Italy. I decorated the entire church as I reinterpreted the Madonna & Child imagery. My ever present symbol, the chicken, acts as messenger, harbinger, visitor. Chickens assist in escorting the Madonna to heaven in my Assumption based on a vision I had in NM. I had been unable to show this body of work since that installation for lack of a proper space.

Gaia

According the the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the name of the ancient Greek earth goddess, Gaia, which came to mean earth, evolved further in 1972 to:

"the hypothesis that the living and nonliving
components of earth function as a single system
in such a way that the living component regulates
and maintains conditions (such as the temperature
of the ocean or composition of the atmosphere) so
as to be suitable for life; also: this system regarded as
a single organism."

Chaza Show Choir

Film co-directed by Theresa Columbus and Didier Leplae
Music written by Didier Leplae, Columbus and the Chaza Orchestra: Peter Barrickman, John Fletcher, Jen Emma Hertel, and Jason Tucker

Cast: Stephanie Barber, Peter Barrickman, Sara Boland, Theresa Columbus, Peter DiAntoni, John Fletcher, Karyn Halmstad, Jen Hertel, Anna Diantoni, India Lathon, Micca Leider, Alyssa Leighton, Didier Leplae, Xav Leplae, Kiara McFarland-Caldwell, Melissa Scherrer, Sativa Silver,  Sheila Spargur, Thidapha Thongsavanh, Jason Tucker, Eric Ziegeweid

fishTank

This pop-up exhibition of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and video installations was on view for the first week in November 2019, and served as the strikeWare collective's coming out party. 
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