Rise and Fall

"Avocado Pulley Head" from my upcoming show at Austin Peay State University Alumni Gallery. I found all of these cool little pulleys at Rochester Imports over in Palatka one day when Joey and I were cruising around over Christmas break. I bought 20 of them and I think I'm going to go get 20 more for the show. For anyone who's seen my "property line drawing" that is currently on display at Johnny's Kitchen in downtown Hastings I'm going to make a similar sculpture for the exhibit I'm just going to use pulleys instead of nails which will allow folks to pull one side down while raising the other side up,

Chief Curator Brooks Museum of Art

When Windy and I first moved to Memphis I worked as a janitor at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. My bosses Johnny and Thomas were really cool and let me hang an exhibit of my own work up in the employee break room. Everyone who used that break room really liked the idea so when I started grad school at the University of Memphis and began to meet other artist I kept curating shows for the employee break room even though I didn't work there anymore. This exhibit is of my friend Virginia Overton's sculpture. She had a show in a slightly better known venue this past summer that you can see some images of if you click this link. www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=11908