Riots First Show Part 2

So, about seven years ago, I promised I'd put up the rest of the photos from my SVA show. So, lemme just go ahead and do that.

This was my first quasi -real art show. It was curated by Jeanne Siegel, the chair of the fine arts department.

My last year of SVA was kinda weird. Some of my teachers were a bit perplexed by my work. Looking back, I kinda understand why - imagine these wonderful established painters coming from Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns or trying to give advice to a young woman making quasi - graphic novels about Rock Stars and monsters, and then making sculptures about it! I had a guy jumping out the window of my studio; the front of my studio was an under water fight scene!



"Crash" & the window of my studio back in 2001

So, along came Jeanne Siegel checking out the forth year studios, she liked my work and selected the underwater fight, "Trouble in Shangri-La" as part of a four/five person show at the schools off-site exhibition space, The Visual Arts Gallery, then located on Wooster Street in Soho. (It, like every other gallery has re-located to the super sexy Chelsea neighborhood).

I love Jeanne Siegel.

I love SVA. During undergrad, I had a slew of amazing teachers like Lucio Pozzi, Lynda Benglis, and most of all Suzan Etkin, who changed my life in my third year…



OK, that’s enough back-story, here's pics.









"Trouble in Shangri-La" @ The Visual Arts Gallery in Soho: BFA Fine Arts Show - September 10 2002

Riot's Website!

I have not made much use of my blogg in a while - I've been busy, as I stated I believe in an earlier post, that I have been doing other things online - those things, were infact my making a website.

Riot's Website

If you are bored, (and you must be to be reading through my blogg) go check out my site. Please forgive the crappy way in which the site was put together. It is the boys of the Celestial Gard, not I, who possess the high-tech mega-nerd skills necessary to create and maintain decent webpage. I’m much better at blowing shit up – and sometimes making art.


(I also blatantly stole several images of my work. I officially apologize to the bloggers I stole from, but your pics are far superior to mine.)