New sculpture from a group show in Venice – March 17th. Check out the full documentation here. This piece is 3×3 feet, and made from wood, books, rebar, glass, wire, steel, linen, and plaster.

New sculpture debuted at the 74 Market Street Gallery in Venice during a group show on Dec 16th during the Venice Arts Crawl. My section of the show was entitled “Building Material” – full documentation here. This piece is called “Suspended Rebar” – three 16x16x8in panels, made from linen, plaster, stucco pigment, rebar, drywall, wood and house paint.

In early November, in downtown LA, I had a live performance-piece at the Miah Studio. Full documentation here. This is a still from the performance. Covered from head-to-toe in white kaolin clay, I mixed plaster into buckets sitting on a zebra skin rug. A rope stretched 14′ from a box in the center of the rug to the I-beams in the ceiling. I attached the mixed plaster buckets to my harness, then climbed the rope. Working from the top down, I applied the plaster, ossifying the rope, turning it into a 14′ bone. The piece is now a permanent installation in the space.

Here is a view of the show, centered on the installation of ascent.

This is a photo from a site-specific performance I did for a solo show a few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. In this photo I am wearing an afghan, a harness and am painted in kaolin white clay. I am slowly ascending a 3-story barn via an industrial hoist. I’ve posted the whole show here at my blog. I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts. I’ll post another picture of the installation here as well.

This city will blast off, orbit the earth a few times, and then land happily on top of Miami. I’ll live in Paradise.

A lot of quality drawings would be thrown away at Providence Children’s Museum if I didn’t rescue them. Who deserves credit for this collage? Am I evil for constructing it? Do great artists steal from children?

Digital collage constructed from malfunctioning internet video stills

This past weekend I participated in an event called the Global Game Jam, a 48-hour marathon during which small teams must create a playable videogame—from scratch. Our entry, entitled Quest for Stick, is a platformer/puzzle game in which you must use mystical powers to guide a Shaman through the level to recover his rain-stick. It is available to download on the Game Jam website, and there is also a gameplay video up on YouTube, so I hope you will check it out!

My contribution to the project was entirely in audio this time around. I had never done composition or sound design before, but it was a great opportunity to learn in a trial-by-fire setting. I will be posting the music on my blog soon, and will make a note here when it is available.

12″x12″

oil on canvas

12″x12″

oil on canvas

self portrait, 18 by 16 in
oil on canvas

open plain, 18 by 18 in.
oil on paper

More of the same.

Alas, I DO care!  I’ve been drawing piles of dogs, inspired by the piles of trash and excess of dogs in New York City, where I am currently living.  I’ve been googling images (à la Jay) of dogs sleeping and combining and reformulating them in my drawings.  I’d like to potentially make dog pile paintings.

Lastly, I apologize for the poor documentation.

Hi all- have just graduated only to find that nobody cares… shockeroo…. Nonetheless, here is a shot of my honors show, an enormous foam-board triumphal arch which I upholstered with a quilt whose panels track my daily life- pie charts of how I spend time in classes, maps of where I walk in one day, etc. My goal was to use up as many of my sewing and art supplies as I could before graduation.

The Arc is 9 feet tall by 8 feet wide by 4 feet deep. Some materials included: neck ties, glitter, old t-shirts, acrylics, watercolor, gouache, pencil, marker, yarn, thread, floss, beads, pom-poms, Elmer’s, plastic dinosaurs, condoms, tooth brushes, buttons, zippers, bows, christmas tree ornaments, felt, sequins, fabric paint, photographs, dried and pressed leaves, old receipts, textiles.

Automatic Drawings produced via protocol.

Currently at work on the installation, 5000 Engine Drawings.

better late than never?  the annual manuary woodcut, 2009 edition.

Y’all – I made two videos that, together, constitute a web pilot for a new series I’m starting. A la Matthew Barney, I’ve also made some portraiture based off the main characters. Some day I’d like to see these printed huge! Until then, check out the videos here: www.tornperspective.com

This drawing is based on imagery from dreams during the course of a week.  In one dream the word Lince appeared, which I later discovered is a section of town in Lima, Peru; a type of machine gun, and spanish for ‘lynx’.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to incorporate my dreams into my art practice for some time.  Recently I was reading Jim Shaw’s book ‘Dreams’ and found myself thinking about how I would have handled presenting my dreams differently.  The result is this painting.  On the far left side just above the sillouhetted space needle you’ll notice my crude rendition of part of List.  Special thanks to Jonathan Barofsky, Jim Shaw, and Luis Bunuel.

An example of some of the latest stuff I was doing in Boston before I left for France.  Hopefully I’ll have some bigger and better things to share soon!

this is a little drawing i did for a book coming out called “Isis”.  i didn’t get the illustration stint, but felt like sharing.  it’s a creepy story about death and incest.

jay, i thought a lot about filling negative space with big shadows.

If you don’t have a work with a long, pretentious title, “Untitled” or “Check this out!!” are always valid. If you want the technical problem, our current theme does not display any direct link to individual posts other than the title field, so without a title people can’t easily link to your individual post.

Thanks,

-Admin

Thank you Adam and Jay! What an awesome idea and faster than light realization! Here’s a good kick in the butt to send everyone into the studio this evening. I sure can always use one. This collage is an illustration for an article in Himal Southasian about the conflict in Sri Lanka. Bring on the posts! This link takes you to the article: http://himalmag.com/A-people-on-the-run_nw2819.html

Digital, Corel Painter IX, Spring 2007.

K. Adam White

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