escapement

12" x 18"

oil on canvas board

This piece was on display recently at the Work Gallery organized by Pop Up A2.

You can read a bit more about my work in an interview with Pop Up A2.

Some press which has featured my work in the Extremes show at The Gallery Project, this past July:

http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/gallery-project-extremes/

A shrine for those who have given their lives to ironing.

Surface Images of Satellite #3

On display beginning April 6th at The Gallery Project

Statement:

To say whether an object is alive depends on your perspective. Our everyday perspective is full of things that are easy to label as living, but a new perspective offered by steady extension of the range of our senses present far more challenging scenarios where we must discriminate between what is animate and what is merely mechanical.

One of the greatest challenges to our perspective comes from simply adjusting the scale with which we observe the world. Close examination of the human body indicates that we are teeming with life at the micro-scale. An individual is a colony of macrophages, lipocytes, neurons and others. Each cell seems more alive than purely mechanical. After all, a cell swimming around in a lake is enough to be called an organism. Why not the same title for those swimming around your body? Or have they lost part of what makes them alive for the sake of cooperation with other cells?

As the range of our senses steadily expands we may meet new challenges to our definition of life. My piece Surface Images of Satellite #3 intends to raise such questions.

Just wanted to say thanks to those who joined me at the opening on Friday.

Sadly, I didn't win any awards, but I'm not to down about this. There was a lot of really good work there from well established Michigan artists. It would be tough to have to pick a just a few of the 70 or so pieces to be best in show. I learned that they received about 200 entries, so I'm still pretty happy about getting both of my submissions accepted. Thats a tougher acceptance rate than U of M!

So, if you didn't get a chance to stop by last Friday, the show will be up until the end of September. Check it out next time you are "downtown".

Show Details

Eruption

3 x 5"

Oil and Mixed Media

Hardwired

5" x 8"

Oil and Mixed Media

Explant
height: 8", copper wire, epoxy resin, hot glue, green LED
base: 5" x 5", pine
power: 4.5 V on 3 AAA batteries

This piece is on display in the Mind show at The Gallery Project through the end of March. Thanks to those who made it to the opening!

statement for this project.

forms from Colin Raymond on Vimeo.

This is video is an exploration of an analogy about the molecular landscape of the human body.

Our body is made largely of protein, complex molecular machines that begin as a simple linked chain. they take their final structure by wrapping up upon themselves in order to release a kind of tension or energy stored in hundreds of small electrical charges.

In this video I add tension to a thin cotton rope by twisting from one end. with enough tension higher order structures form spontaneously. the shape and movement of the rope has a remarkably organic and sinister quality.

music by aphex twin

detail of run_4281

striders application:

laptop with generative animation written in MATLAB

run_4281

digital print 12" x 18"

striders was display in Capturing Motion

at Gallery Project: Nov - Dec 2009

Photograph courtesy of Alex.

My piece "Rainy Night" was selected for the 2009 All Media Exhibition at the Ann Arbor Art Center (on liberty and main st.) Thanks for joining me at the opening.
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Also, I have four pieces on display at the 4th Avenue Gallery. Check them out any Friday night from 6-10 pm. Free music and refreshments, too. Located at 210 S. Fourth Avenue.

Visit the Heavy Portraits Gallery

Classical/modern portraiture.

Visit the Upstairs Downstairs Gallery


This gallery is a collection of subtle, abstract images.

Visit the Rainy Night Galley


Impressionism, landscape and urban scenes.

Visit the Light Portraits Gallery

A collection of portraits on paper using graphite and mixed media, from 2003 and onward.

Totem Pole Gallery

A collection of abstract expressionist works in mixed media. These pieces were made between January and April of 2009

Various Works from 2003-2008

Not entirely sorted and somewhat organized by theme, this gallery is here if you are curious to see some more recent experiments or work while traveling in Europe during the spring of 2003 (the good old days).