As a child when I was told that I was an artist, I would always retort, “No!” I like to make things. I made my tools my paint. I even used gumbo as a binder to mix some pigment I received from a sugar factory. I have carved stone, wood and some very special bark […]
See the Channel 20 news report about Sudhu Tewari and Nome Edonna from January 24, 2007. Watch a video by Mark Gunnion of our art exhibition for Sudhu Tewari and Nome Edonna in January 2007. I am primarily a musician/instrument builder focusing on creating electro-acoustic instruments and electronics with which to perform. I also create […]
Preview the Innova recording of Junkestra. At the old children’s playground in Golden Gate Park, there was an enormous rainbow play structure that was a warren of metal slides and tunnels. My kids would disappear inside for long stretches — there was no way for an adult to follow — and I was left on […]
What makes a thing fascinating is to not completely know it. It is this gap in our understanding that the imagination uses as its canvas. Salvaged material is an ideal medium to make use of this principle. A “found object” is just a familiar thing seen as though for the first time. By maintaining this […]
See the Channel 20 news report about Nome Edonna and Sudhu Tewari from January 24, 2007. Watch a video by Mark Gunnion of our art exhibition for Sudhu Tewari and Nome Edonna in January 2007. Art is the result of satisfying a constant inner compulsion to create. My work is a personal (and at times […]
I undertake actions with various materials, often materials associated with construction, with the aim of uncovering either a link between the material and its past and future manifestations or pointing to a desire for such a link. I look for simple gestures to enact on materials such as wood, concrete, paper, Styrofoam, sheetrock, spackle, or […]
Though my work begins with found objects, it is far from being “ready-made.” Handicraft and mass production are brought together through labor-intensive transformations whereby various techniques are used to parse and reassemble the objects into new forms. This attention to craft is confounded by the relative “disposability” of the materials and by the fact that […]
My work relates a quasi interest in physics and all things of the universe and science with social conditions and relations, primarily using humor of the extraordinary kind. True intelligent breakthroughs in astrophysics are normally produced on small ranches in Texas by unknown ranchers and cowboys. It is only by chance that the stories told […]
It is my intention to have my artwork ask more questions than assert hard answers and overt meaning. I like to create situations where initial perceptions about a particular piece of artwork are not immediately understood; creating what Walter Benjamin termed, “the blind spot,” or a moment of mental detach that incites conceptual thought. Here […]
Fun is the universal language. Information is learned through visceral experience. Exploring ourselves through motion, we face our joys and excitement as well as our fears and hesitation. Physical memories hold lakeside property in our consciousness. Much of my artwork consists of bicycle-powered kinetic sculpture. Participants move themselves through space by pushing bicycle pedals. People-powered […]