Over time the configurations of the set would change from leaning towers, to miniature fortresses, pyramids, or stacks.  Vasa’s work invites whoever may have been sitting in  front of  the  table  to interact  with  the cubes,  move them, hold them in the palm of their hand and admire the intricate prisms contained inside.  The […]

Every picture tells a story.  For collectors Sirje Helder Gold and Michael O. Gold, each work basks in its own magnificence and curiosity on display in their Southern California home.  Designed to showcase their growing collection.  Every work has a personality so palpable it vibrates off the walls.  Similar to the young narrator in Proust’s […]

A photograph is just a flat surface it does not give enough or reveal enough- I want to get inside the image.  Photography has always disappointed me.  I have always wanted it to be more.  It promises an intimate return of a memory but it cannot fully deliver on that promise.  My frustration got me […]

Monsters All Monsters This is an animation of Jim Shaw singing to my studio.  I’m watching on webcam from the past, before I moved back to LA to attend UCLA for my MFA  My friends call me Mike Kelly, but obviously I’ve never considered showing under that name.  Moving to LA I wondered how I […]