Category: installations

Against the Law to Have Just Juan, fine artist oil paint, felt, wood bits & pieces, staples, paint residue, Dimensions: 10″ tall more or less, 2011 Installed and left at Home Depot, 387 Charles Street, Providence, Rhode Island (2012).            

Clifton Santiago, m/m (oil, wood, canvas, staples), 2011, small scale — 7 inches tall or so Installed in the Service Department’s waiting room at Elmwood Dodge Chrysler Jeep, 625 Taunton Avenue, East Providence, Rhode Island.  

Jerrome Jacobo, m/m, 2011, small scale Installed and left, WITH PERMISSION, at UPS Store, 11 South Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island.          

        Installed and left Consuela Jimenez at the United States Post Office branch located at 24 Corliss St # 100. I had been meaning to install a painting here for a while since my family and I frequent this branch quite often, but I always hesitated for some reason or another (too... Continue reading Consuela Jimenez

Angel  Aragon, fine artist oil paint, crotch mesh from an old pair of my swimming trunks, discarded art pieces, scrap wood, boogers, staples, 2011, 11 1/21″ x 7 1/2″ Installed and left at Holiday Inn Express, 5500 Tuttle Crossing Blvd, Dublin, Ohio 43016.   3/4 view 3/4 view backside revealed detail

Slipping N2 Comparison 4D Sake Of Good S Madness, oil, canvas, discarded art wood and canvas, staples, 2011, 9″ x 8 1/1″ Installed and left at the Carousel Village at Roger Williams Park, 1000 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island.   backside revealed 3/4 view

Control S A Means Of Social Sin, oil, canvas, discarded art pieces, wood scraps, free Slurpee coupon from 7-11, 2011, 13 1/77″ x 7″ Installed and left at SpeeDee Oil Change, 985 North Main Street Providence, RI. 3/4 view backside revealed

Da Idea Of Oppression S Used 2 Obscure Transcendence, oil, green chile burlap potato sack, wood, staples, 2011, 415/16″ x 4 13/16″ Installed and left Da Idea Of Oppression S Used 2 Obscure Transcendence at East Side Pediatrics located at 154 Waterman St # 3 in Providence, Rhode Island. My sons’ pediatrician works there — fine,... Continue reading Da Idea Of Oppression S Used 2 Obscure Transcendence

This S Ur Brain This S Ur Brain On Drugs, oil, discarded board, felt, staples, 2011, 14 2/3″ x 8 3/4″ Installed and left at Providence’s Ben & Jerry’s located at 237 Meeting Street. 3/4 view backside revealed      

Smoke Time S A Gigantic Leisure Screen, purple fabric paint, canvas, discarded pine wood pieces, staples, floor filth including glitter, 2011, 8.1″ x 6.1″ Installed and left at the office of Dr.Sperber in the Hillside Family and Community Medicine  located at 727 East Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. 3/4 view backside revealed

A Man Walked Into A Bar, oil, green chile burlap potato sack, discarded art pieces, staples, 2011, (6+1)” x 3 19/20″. Installed at Walmart located at 51 Silver Spring Street, Providence, Rhode Island (8/2012).   3/4 view backside revealed

Door-Stop Thief Faces 15 2 20, oil, canvas, several different door stops, paint residue, staples, 2011, 6 1/4″ x 6 3/88″ Installed and left at Chips Auto Transport, 295 Union Street, East Walpole, Massachusetts.       3/4 view backside revealed installation shot at OFG (Courtesy of Oliver Francis Gallery)

“Keep and Clean Your Dirty Sex Fights” — Kevin Tocino, oil, ink, gamsol scum, clorox bleach, canvas, found wood, staples, 2011, 8″ x 4.556663239389298383929238292300329834282920320323293289320032932893203429239832932040432932093203293420903293290320″ Installed and left at the Providence Children’s Museum Coming to Rhode Island exhibit.     3/4 view backside revealed  

Past 0ld Friends R Better n d Left, oil, old wooden bits and pieces, discarded art fragments, paint residue, staples, 2011, 28/2″ x 6.5493″ Installed and left at Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island’s 6th floor family waiting room.   3/4 view

Life S Like a Bowl of Cherries, U Never No What U Gonna Get, canvas, spray paint, oil, plywood, discarded triangles, Brown University painting studios floor filth, 2011,19 2/2″ x 7.99483829020938483902894840392″ Installed and lift on abandoned property, 58 Carrington Avenue, Providence, RI 02906   A month later: It looked as if the property had been... Continue reading Life S Like a Bowl of Cherries, U Never No What U Gonna Get

Can N0ise B Hostile, oil, cotton, discarded weave, wood, staples, 2011, 5.434382″ x 4 1/111″ Installed and left at Savers, 1925 Pawtucket Ave  East Providence, RI 3/4 view

Soul T00 Sole, discarded fine artist’s oil, Brown University painting studio floor filth, abandoned readymade canvas stretcher wooden corner-chips, canvas, staples, 2011, 75/12″ x 4.37″ 3/4 view  

  According 2 0perable Laws d W0rld Operates installed and left at Burlington Coat Factory 60 Newport Avenue, Rumford, Rhode Island. Materials: canvas, discarded wood parts from a stretcher making workshop, Brown University painting studios floor grime/paint residue, filth, 2011, 49/7″ x 5 1/98″   3/4 view

  X Rug, oil, particle board, bathmat, staples, tub scum, and grime, 2011, 8 2/3″ x 8 23/45″ Installed and left in the children’s bedroom showroom section of IKEA (Stoughton, Massachusetts)    

  Old Man Sweater, oil, wood, staples, and my favorite sweater ever, 9 3/4″ x 6 15/16″, 2011 Installed and left at Center for Obstetrics & Gynecology located at 297 Promenade Street, Providence, Rhode Island.  

  Grassroots Hope S D Only Agitation, oil, wood, canvas, grime, filth, staples, 2011, 12″ x 12 2/2″

Barbaric s Torture, oil, canvas, wood, staples, filth, discarded art, Vogue Magazine scraps, Pine twig, 2011, 6″ x 5 12/45″,   installed at Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX (photos courtesy of Oliver Francis Gallery…thanks Oliver Francis!). December 2011: NOW! THAT’S WHAT I CALL ART: VOL 1       installed at Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD,... Continue reading Barbaric s Torture

  Trust Washington, oil, wood, canvas, staples, grime, paint residue, 11″ x 8 22/44″, 2011 Placed and left at Washington Trust Bank located at 56 Westminster Street Providence, Rhode Island

  , Born 2 Dye, oil, grime, wood, canvas, staples, 2011, 20″ x 17″ Installed at YMCA Pawtucket, Rhode Island in the kids playroom

Hung Upd, oil, grime, canvas, wood, staples, 14″ x 8″. Installed at Providence, RI laundromat.

  Ey3 Forg0T 2, 2011, oil, canvas, wood, Vogue Magazine collage, discarded art, rubbings, staples, filth, post-abortion pamphlet, 12″ x 5 13/14″. Placed and left in a communal bulletin board located in Lippitt Memorial Park, Providence, Rhode Island.

  Rewarded Deeds R E Ventually Good, oil, canvas, discarded art, wood fragments, triangle, filth, 2011, 13 94/222″ x 6 33/34″ Placed and left at Kennedy Plaza Bus Depot, Providence, Rhode Island