Installation and presentation, the Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, 2019
Presentation Photos: Jenny Chernansky
Galleries
True Crime Theatre: Hell’s Belle
True Crime Theatre is a multi-media immersive performance bringing the feel of radio dramas and podcasts into the live arena of arts. Two live actors weave the tale of Belle Gunness supported by live foley artists as well as a live sketch artist, who brings to life missing persons posters in real time. The audience is surrounded by subtle art installations of various artifacts connected to the crimes and vanishing of one of America’s earliest female serial killers.
Written and directed by Kevin G Becker, live drawing by CS Frank.
Crime Scenes, Cont’d
Lift
Palm, partial (detail)
i continue fascinated with the process of fingerprinting; pulling information out of invisibility with powdered pigment, brush, and tape. the way that fingerprints function as evidence, as a means of constructing narrative. the unidentified subject touched this. here. and here. the ways in which the information is partial, incomplete, the ways in which fingerprints stand in for identity.
all images: powdered graphite and tape on paper, 2017
Crime Scenes
These images are part of the work I’m doing for my MFA. I’m using the tools of forensic investigators (powdered pigment and brushes) to first create drawings using my fingerprints, then pull the images up via the fingerprint dusting method. These drawings reference unsolved disappearances of women in the United States; each one is based on an actual case file.
Update: These images will be part of “Deadly Intentions” at Studio 659, from 9/24/17 through 11/11/17.
Ars Memoria
In 2010, I was lucky enough to be part of Deborah Boardman’s exhibition/performance, A Porous Space.
Deborah brought me on to interpret her Faults song into American Sign Language (ASL), which was a massive challenge.
Italy Sketchbook, 2015
In May 2015, I accompanied a group of my students on a study-abroad trip to Italy. The sketches below are the result of that trip.
