I have a project at Artspace in New Haven opening this Thursday. There will be a reception from 6 to 8 PM. The project is called Guerrilla Trees, and consists of a large wall-drawn map of New Haven, twelve elm saplings, and several hundred elm seeds. Viewers are asked to mark on the map a place where they’d like to see an elm tree planted. When weather allows, I will go out and plant one of the saplings in that place. The seeds are there for the taking.

Meredith and I are very happy to offer for download our most recent musical effort on iTunes or Amazon.

A few new images:

I have posted five new projects, and a new coffee table. This (and a forthcoming album from Spacelover) more or less accounts for my creative activity this fall.

By coincidence and good luck I will be concurrently in three shows next month, though the overlap will be just two days. They are:

Material Afterlife at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI from April 10 through August 8, 2009

The Sky’s the Limit at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT from April 10 through May 15, 2009

and

Bubble and Squeak at Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA from May 14 through June 20, 2009

Here is the press release from Rebekah Templeton:

Rebekah Templeton
c o n t e m p o r a r y a r t

173 W. Girard Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19123
267-519-3884
info@rebekahtempleton.com
www.rebekahtempleton.com

Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Bubble and Squeak, a group exhibition highlighting the work of first year Master of Fine Arts students Fritz Horstman, Jennifer Jones-O’Neil, Jiwon Lee, Heather Ramsdale and Leigh Van Duzer, some of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most promising emerging artists. The title references a classic English dish that is made from leftovers and scraps.

Fritz Horstman uses discarded shipping crates to form a dialogue about the human perception of nature. By cutting out a hole, in which the viewer is enticed to place their head, Horstman illuminates an interior space full of images of stars. Using elements of camera obscura, Horstman envelopes the viewer in a private world of light and image.

Jennifer Jones-O’Neil is a photographer exploring ideas of abstraction, flattening and altering by using color fields that are created analogously and digitally. Infused with elements of the absurd, Jones-O’Neil’s photographs highlight the alienation we can experience from consistently being bombarded with mass amounts of information.

Jiwon Lee’s carbon paper drawings jumble multiple images together to create a mass of circumstances and marks. Lee’s fragments are mashed together giving the drawing the power to create something new and unpredictable in the mind of the viewer and outside the complete control of the artist.

Using common construction materials, Heather Ramsdale’s work challenges our notions of our private spaces. Ramsdale inverts the organization of domesticity by reorganizing the materials we encounter during everyday life, exposing the space within structures.

Leigh Van Duzer’s photographs detail an interior space rich with narrative and engorged with structural decay. Her photographs deal with the detritus of human activity. Van Duzer’s recent series involves photographing a bankrupt video store as a ‘container of history’.

Bubble and Squeak opens on Thursday, May 14, 2009 with an opening reception from 6-9 pm. The exhibition includes drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. The show closes on Saturday, June 20, 2009.

I’ve posted some new work. Reclining Crystal Form will be in the Brooklyn Waterfront Arts Commission’s Outdoor Sculpture Show until early September, 2008.

I’ve also put up some Disassembled Cedar sculptures.

Reeves-Reed Arboretum’s Art in the Garden exhibition will open on Saturday, June 7 in Summit, NJ. I took part in this show last year, and was pleased to be invited back. Last week I was there to install To Perish Twice.

In June this year I will begin work towards an MFA in Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

I’ve just posted a new table that I built to replace the no-longer-extant table I built for Meredith:

This is a piece I’m developing:

As you can see, we’ve added a News section to the site. Fritz will be posting updates here, on his work, shows and events he’s participating in, ongoing projects, and other related information.

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Today’s date, 3/5/8, is the last time we who use the North American date format will have consecutive Fibonacci numbers until May 8, 2013.