Some People Can't Be Bothered

Maryland Institute College of Art, Fox Building, Baltimore, MD    

June 23 -  July 10, 2017

This installtion immersed viewers in distorted glowing language taken from my writing. Viewers illuminated the work with provided UV flashlights and were invited to write responses on the wall in luminescent ink. The text remained glowing on the wall some time after the UV light was removed.

Radiant Flux

Exploring the interplays of light and surface, Radiant Flux greets participants with undulating and faceting reflections of their own forms while casting brilliant shards of colored light upon them, choreographed by their own movements.

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Antennae

In-Progress

Antennae is an upcoming interactive virtual reality experience set in a greenhouse that presents a dreamlike narrative about our vulnerability to the pervasiveness of broadcast media.

Sun Stomp

Premiering at the 2018 Light City Baltimore festival, Sun Stomp was a solar powered light and interactive audio-visual environment that for eight nights activated McKeldin Square. The monumental scaffolding sculpture featured an interactive projection on one side and an array of sixteen 290 watt solar panels on the other. Electrical energy collected during the day and was stored as chemical energy in a battery bank which provided electricity to a colorful array of LED neon lights illuminating the structure after dark.

Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose your own Adventure transformed Baltimore’s Charles Street Bridge into a colorful playscape of pedestrian pathways and hanging beach balls. The project was commissioned by Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts for the free 2018 Artscape festival. Spray chalk lines marked a site-based map converging under a forest of beach balls hanging from an open air structure. The streetscape-enhancing project was a collaboration between Baltimore-based public artists Becky Borlan and Graham Coreil-Allen.

Pizza Party Twister

Pizza Party Twister occurred during the Field Day exhibition at Artscape 2014 in Baltimore, MD and has also been included in the group exhibition, "Subversive Play: Artists Challenging Mechanisms of Control," at Structura Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria.


The official Twister rules state that Twister is “the perfect fun starter for every party.” I agree with this statement but believe that playing Twister on a giant, delicious looking pizza is a more effective way of beginning what one hopes will be a fun, friendly gathering.

Gun Show

GUN SHOW is a new thirty minute documentary directed by Richard Chisolm, released in 2020. 


After assembling mock assault rifles out of everyday found objects, sculptor David Hess goes on the road to explore America's obsession with guns. When ordinary citizens are allowed to handle these weapons, a fresh and meaningful dialogue results. Gun Show is a film about the power of art to advance a conversation on a subject of dire importance. The sculptures become ‘weapons of mass discussion.’               

Festival Projects: SunStomp, Dancing Forest, & Choose Your Own Adventure

Sun Stomp
http://grahamprojects.com/projects/sunstomp
April 14-21, 2018
Light City Baltimore, McKeldin Square, 101 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD
Scaffolding, bleachers, solar panels, solar hardware, projection screen, projector, LED neon, contact microphones, video processor
34’x24’x75’
Project partner: Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts

Vision Quest Lundi: Flush/Flood

Clay animation, burlap, cat litter, water, toilet, rubber, tape, iron, incense, inkjet prints on paper

Vision Quest Lundi: Flush/Flood is the second installment in the ongoing Vision Quest Lundi series, which is a wide-reaching narrative journey through marked stages of the ‘monomyth' (one true story) as detailed by the late Joseph Campbell. Vision Quest Lundi builds the framework for myth from facets of history, culture, religion and academics— accessing the spiritual qualities of disparately connected moments and placing them accordingly to function within a new system.

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