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Much of the art I’ve been making lately involves turning the ideas and conversations swirling around events into illustrated information murals. This photo is a snapshot of that process. I call this practice “visual listening.” I provide visual listening as a service at meetings, conferences, and community events for clients from fortune 500 companies to grassroots community groups. Art materials: markers and paper.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez soaking up the visual listening piece I created during her talk at a political event in Queens. Recently I have been doing a lot of work to support political candidates I wanted to see elected. Art materials: markers and paper.
This is the visual listening piece created live during Representative Ocasio-Cortez’ remarks. Art materials: markers and paper.
This piece was for candidate Catalina Cruz, who was subsequently elected to the state assembly as the first former Dreamer elected to that office in New York. I captured remarks by Cruz as well as city council members Danny Dromm and Margaret Chin. assembly member Cruz pictured at left. Art materials: markers and paper.
This is an action scene of candidate Catalina Cruz talking with voters on the sidewalk about issues that concerned them while I visually captured those concerns on a flip chart in words and pictures.
Visual listening piece from a gathering of technologists and artists who were creating interactive high tech art pieces using social media data provided by the Obama Whitehouse at the end of the Obama presidency. This event took place at NYU. Art materials: markers and paper.
A visual listening piece was for a talk given by Esther Dyson about her community wellness initiative and for Sara Holoubek who was talking about possibilities for using smart speakers in service of clinical drug trials. Art materials: markers and paper..
This visual listening piece captured conversation about what it is like to be an undocumented immigrant in New York City seeking asylum. Art materials: markers and paper.
This postcard was commissioned for Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Caban’s campaign. Medium and tools: digital painting and illustration using a painting app on an iPad digital painting and illustration using painting app on an iPad.
Poster created for Earth Day celebration in Jackson Heights, Queens. Medium and tools: digital painting and illustration using a painting app on an iPad digital painting and illustration using a painting app on an iPad. Type, photos, and government seals added with Photoshop.
Poster for a concert series. Medium and tools: digital painting and illustration using a painting app on an iPad. Type added with Photoshop.
This painting was commissioned by a local group in Jackson Heights, Queens, and tries to convey the many communities coming together as one in this immigrant diverse neighborhood.. Meiium and tools: digital painting and illustration using a painting app on an iPad.
New York City can do strange things to one’s mind. Media and tools: digital painting and and collage with iPad. Photo elements photographed by me.
Sketch For a mural proposal for Representative Ocasio-Cortez’ Queens office. Medium and tools: digital painting and illustration using a painting app on an iPad.
I am showing this work in context. In the lower left there is a painting of a family with the statue of liberty. I made this for a press conference where NY State Assembly candidate Catalina Cruz highlighted the trauma of separating undocumented family members from each other. In this case Alfredo F. (in the blue shirt holding his child) was detained by INS while travelling to work. Alfredo’s wife is holding the painting. Alfredo is still working through the legal process to try to stay in the USA. Materials: acrylic on cardboard.
This piece was part of an exhibit called Subway Series at Espresso 77 in Jackson Heights. The exhibit was based on drawings of subway riders. This one is called “Snail rider.” Materials: acrylic paint, paper, ink, and glass beads on canvas.
This is another Subway Series piece. Materials: xerograph of original ink drawing, colored with acrylic paint, collaged onto a subway map.
In 2016 had the pleasure of being a teaching artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art working with high school students from Title I schools. this is ab examples of work by one of these students. My curriculum involved showing them different ways of visually representing information, showing them frameworks to explore “who, what, why, where, how, when, and how much.” Their final project was to combine any of these frameworks to create a personal expression of their choice, limiting their color palettes to black, white, and red.
In 2016 had the pleasure of being a teaching artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art working with high school students from Title I schools. this is ab examples of work by one of these students. My curriculum involved showing them different ways of visually representing information, showing them frameworks to explore “who, what, why, where, how, when, and how much.” Their final project was to combine any of these frameworks to create a personal expression of their choice, limiting their color palettes to black, white, and red.
In 2016 had the pleasure of being a teaching artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art working with high school students from Title I schools. this is ab examples of work by one of these students. My curriculum involved showing them different ways of visually representing information, showing them frameworks to explore “who, what, why, where, how, when, and how much.” Their final project was to combine any of these frameworks to create a personal expression of their choice, limiting their color palettes to black, white, and red.