CoDriver Experiments
First CoDriver Experiment- in front of Jack and Greg on La Brea, pigment ink on acid free paper, 13 x 18 inches, 2018
CoDriver Experiment of and in front of Cameron Gonzo and Zeus on the 405, pigment ink and acrylic on paper, 50 x 73 inches (unframed), 2018
In Front of and of Drivers and Staff at the LAX Warehouse, pigment ink, gold gel pen, acrylic on acid free paper in artist made frame, 12 x 24 inches, 2018
CoDriver Experiment and Sitter Response on the 110 (with Zach Trow), pigment ink and acrylic on acid free paper, 12 x 24 inches, 2018
CoDriver Experiment of and in front of Ernesto Conor and Rob, pigment ink and acrylic on paper, 50 x 73 inches (unframed), 2018
CoDriver Experiment on Sepulveda in Blue and Red, pencil and acrylic on acid free paper, 15 x 17 inches, 2018 (sold)
CoDriver Experiment on Sepulveda in Yves Klein Blue, pencil and acrylic on acid free paper, 15 x 17 inches (unframed), 2018 (sold)
CoDriver Experiment on Sepulveda with Texture, pencil and acrylic on acid free paper, 15 x 17 inches, 2018 (sold)
CoDriver Experiment on the 105, colored pencil and acrylic on acid free paper, 16 x 24 inches, 2018
360 in Miranda’s Car with Emily and Gear- Big Bear to LA, ink and acrylic on acid free paper in two artist made frames, 50 x 73 inches, 2018
First Sound Portrait, Audible Sitter Response and CoDriver Drawing (With Niall Murphy), 30 x 40 inches and 2 seconds, acrylic and pigment ink on acid free paper with sound electronics, 2019
360 CoDriver and Sitter Response Censored with Consent (with OllieT Goulds in the Louver Van), 59 x 16 inches, pigment ink, acrylic, and erased pencil on acid free paper, 2019
As a high school student in 2001, I won a scholarship to attend a summer course at what was then called The Laguna Art Institute. I asked my professor what the secret was to sustaining an art career. He told me what his professor had told him: get a day job that you hate, so that after work, you are excited to make art despite your exhaustion. Almost 20 years later, this was the path that I often chose.
The series CoDriver Experiments began while I was working as a truck driver in Los Angeles. Though I enjoyed driving, I most often found myself in the passenger seat and so began making time-based performances in front of, and of, my male coworkers until I got carsick. These agitated, kinetic drawings made to the rhythm of the jolting ride, also recorded what I could see beyond the regular 60° cone of vision. I added new pages and subtracted old ones as I drew, according to what I could hold in my hands. I later joined the pages together; and in some works, meditatively painted bright color fields between fragmented bodies and landscapes.