Public Art | Painting | Chromodynamic Light
Locals and visitors to Winter Hill noticed a new street art stencil over Somerville Open Studios weekend. The art marks the location of President Obama’s old basement student apartment at 365 Broadway in Somerville, where he lived while a graduate student … Read More
I don’t usually work with kids. But I had the pleasure of creating a couple of public events lately where visitors are invited to help color in the art, and this naturally seems to turn into a kid-centric activity. Everyone … Read More
Creating a Street Piano for Celebrity Series‘ “Play Me, I’m Yours” hitting the Boston streets in September! The 60 artists chosen all worked in a shared industrial space in the Innovation & Design Building from July 18-Aug. 26, and the pianos will be … Read More
It’s July 11 and everyone is playing Pokemon Go… the streets of Cambridge and Somerville are full of folks walking around looking at their phones, catching Pokemons. I decided it was time to prank them by printing out colorful Pokemon creatures about 8″ … Read More
I’ve been working with the City of Lowell and CDM Smith engineers to create art for their Decatur WAY project in Lowell, a beautiful new walkway in what had been a bit of an eyesore alley behind the historic Cote’s … Read More
I’m pleased to say I have an article published in the journal “The Artists’ Working: Theory and Practice”. It’s on the process of making the Connected By Sea installation. There are 8 fat & juicy articles in this publication, well … Read More
Had a very lovely Open Studios weekend, maybe the best ever! Saw lots of good folk, had excellent conversations, showed off art, sold art! People liked the old color-changing painting setup and the new Rain Art demo! My and other … Read More
Having a great Somerville Open Studios weekend. But one interesting complication has been the letter emailed to all the exhibiting artists from the SOS organizers at 9pm Saturday night, (that’s right, halfway through the event!) saying that the Somerville Board … Read More
Earthsign Studios just got our shipment of industrial superhydrophobic waterproofer, and I get to try out Seattle-style Rain Activated Art! Here’s the video of my test piece. Spoiler: It works great! I’m about to use it on the new Decatur Way Green … Read More
This year’s edition of the Boston PSI or Public Space Initiative has come upon us, and I’m submitting Stairs of Fabulousness II: The Blinky Edition (or more properly, “Stairs of deLight”!) An interactive LED light installation on the bottom staircase … Read More
If I had my way, this is what I’d do in the Kensington Underpass (that ugly walkway under 93 from the Stop & Shop to Assembly Square). Painting with Color Kinetics lighting. The complicated one would use stencils to make parts … Read More
I put this wheat paste up in the Alley in Central Square, in response to Gov. Baker’s attitude toward the Syrian refugee crisis.
Well now, there appears to be a rather worried Lemur on the Rte 93 pedestrian underpass to Assembly Square. Posted without further comment.
Excellent day kicking off tattoo project in Salem!! Half the ground prepped, placement decisions decided, volunteers found and met, a fantastic bunch of people up here with a desire to make cool stuff! Big thanks to Daniel Stanwood for stalwart … Read More
Here is a lovely shot from the atrium inside Boston City Hall, with the Stairs of Fabulousness and the 2015 Textable Christmas Tree, where you text it a Crayola color and it lights up- LED lighting joy! Have a fabulous … Read More
Non-skid treads in fabulous color are now viewable and walkable in the main interior atrium at Boston City Hall. Tape installation completed this Tuesday night, usable by a youth council meeting in the evening attended by Mayor Walsh. The fluorescent colors show … Read More
Some of my design work will be going to the Playa this year, as part of an Honorarium-grant funded piece to be displayed outside Center Camp! Read about Cosmic Praise here: The “Landmark space Minaret” with Spark Chamber at the top! I’m … Read More
Another of the designs that we submitted to the Public Space Invitational: Bug Bench! See the full Poster PDF
I was happy to hear today that New Zealand-based tattoo artist Tiki O’Brien has agreed to work on a design for the Pacific Islands portion of Connected By Sea. I had been concerned because our initial communications got off to … Read More
Based on meetings happening this week with the shipyard, it looks like it will be best for all concerned, for the installation to happen in June. Possibly June and July. For me the concern is having dependably warmer weather, and … Read More
Suggestion for sprucing up Boston City Hall: I found the atrium staircase dark and treacherous; the old caution tape on the steps is a mess. It needs safety tape, and that comes in colors! That means we can make City Hall 400% … Read More
I feel that this is an important discussion right now. Increasing sensitivity is one was we’re positively evolving as humans, but having artistic dialogue and learning/influencing/being influenced, with love and respect, is also the only way we’ll move forward and … Read More