I am an artist and programmer living in Brooklyn, NY. I write the code for open-ground.org. It uses the NARF framework, which I also write. You can contact me at martyr@open-ground.org. Are you my friend? I like poetic, sensual, iconic paintings. I throw various ideas against the wall and hopefully they stick. I try to make paintings which resist my attempts at calming verbage. I like tactile, spiritual, emotional, informational, emotional paintings, in no particular order. I think the death of painting is dumb. I assemble devotional, ecstatic, psychedelic icons from children's books and family snapshots. These small paintings embellish my fears: haunting visions of swelling seas, staring at the sun, being lost in space. Joining the Byzantine and the obfuscated, these icons document a cybernetic childhood of Catholicism and mathematics hexane.org mirrors the latest projects on my hard drive. It's something of a studio visit.

Exhibitions

2005
Blogging and the Arts, Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Kommt in den Wedding, Galerie Scherer 8, Berlin

2004
Surfeit, Zone: Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY
liminal, Open Ground, Brooklyn
Local Talent / Small Works, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Seen it All,” Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Open Season, Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY

2003
Group exhibition at A's Place, New York, NY
Local Talent / Small Works, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
In Security, Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY
Party Congress, Beekiller.net at The Williamsburg Publik House, Brooklyn, NY
The Planning Game, Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY

2002
Pool, Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY

2001
Heart and Movement, Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY
Installation 3, Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY
Installation 2, Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY
Installation 1, Open Ground, Brooklyn, NY

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