You Can Have It All, as an exhibition is about experience and awareness of one’s body and state of mind. As a body of work it encapsulates a material language I’ve utilized over the course of three years to express a diary like sense of my personal experience of the present. This work ebbs, flows, and beats organically from conception to exhibition. This evolution started with the concept of cartoonish evil ice cream depicted in pink oil paintings and video work, but quickly transformed into a tumorous metaphoric experience of my mother’s cancer. This exhibition explores three main themes: experience of living now, the cyclical progression of life and death and the mother-child relationship.
Wave Machines: Pedestal pieces 48” x 8”x 8” Plexiglas, veterinarian OB gloves, insulation foam, electric fan 2017
Lump #2 96” x 72” x 14” Insulation foam, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, acrylic paint, tinsel, electric fan 2017
Lump #2 96” x 72” x 14” Insulation foam, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, acrylic paint, tinsel, electric fan 2017
Heistand Galleries Miami University
Lump #2 96” x 72” x 14” Insulation foam, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, acrylic paint, tinsel, electric fan 2017
Kneeling Booth 60” x 52” Insulation foam, handmade pom poms, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, speaker, acrylic paint, craft pom poms, cellophane, plastic flowers 2017
Kneeling Booth 60” x 52” Insulation foam, handmade pom poms, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, speaker, acrylic paint, craft pom poms, cellophane, plastic flowers 2017
Kneeling Booth 60” x 52” Insulation foam, handmade pom poms, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, speaker, acrylic paint, craft pom poms, cellophane, plastic flowers 2017
Kneeling Booth 60” x 52” Insulation foam, handmade pom poms, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, speaker, acrylic paint, craft pom poms, cellophane, plastic flowers 2017
Burning Down the House 4:30 Single channel video 2017
Standing Booth 49” x 48” x 36” Insulation foam, handmade pom poms, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, speaker, acrylic paint 2016
Standing Booth 49” x 48” x 36” Insulation foam, handmade pom poms, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, speaker, acrylic paint 2016
Peek-a-booth 56” x 60” x 10” Single channel video on flat screen television with insulation foam, chicken wire, and cellophane 2016
Peek-a-booth (Detail) 56” x 60” x 10” Single channel video on flat screen television with insulation foam, chicken wire, and cellophane 2016
Lump #1 (Detail) 96” x 30” x 9” Insulation foam, handmade pom poms, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, acrylic paint, craft pom poms, piped latex caulk, plastic curlers, holiday garland 2016
Lump #1 96” x 30” x 9” Insulation foam, handmade pom poms, chicken wire, plywood, LED lights, acrylic paint, craft pom poms, piped latex caulk, plastic curlers, holiday garland 2016
Sam Dorgan 