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Poetimage – a new word is born
Po-et-image [poh-it-im-ahzh]: (pronounced with a french ‘age’), like collage, like mirage, like massage
Speicher Country: Published in Folio Weekly
Published in Folio Weekly’s September 15th, 2009 edition.
Polar Brokers on Yale’s SAGE Magazine
It was an honor to have three Polar Brokers drawings published as cover art for SAGE Magazine which is published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Below is the entire publication starting out with the my work on the back cover.
Trophy Soldiers and Polar Brokers Find a Home in Utrecht, Netherlands
Photos of images from the Polar Brokers and Trophy Soldiers collection installed in graphic designer Roel Dalhuisen’s home. Roel lives and works in Utrecht, Netherlands and has been a [...]
Realizations along the way
I had the pleasure to present my artwork, life story, and these 20 realizations to Mark Creegan’s Design 1 class on March 10th. I spoke close to an hour and it definitely was the most cathartic experience I’ve ever had. I’m not sure if many in the class got anything out of it, but I [...]
Artist Interviews
For the past couple of years I’ve been involved in artist interviews and I have been using various formats for them. The various formats
are (but not limited to) Q&As via email, Facebook chats, podcasts, Skype, video and photo documentation.
A couple of my favorite interviews that I’ve done to date are:
“2 Birds 2009″ interview completed [...]
Ode to Obama in the Florida Times Union.
Globatron.org collaboratively created a mixture of Obama related creative content for the 2008 Presidential Election, here “Ode to Obama“. It was also mentioned on The Florida Times Union’s web site Jacksonville.com, as a creative project collaging a sample of Jacksonville creative content from liberal and conservative viewpoints alike. Our link is labeled “Jax Obama Rally”. [...]
Open Ground at the Fountain Art Fair
I showed with Open Ground from Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the Fountain Art Fair in the Wynwood Arts District, for Art Basel weekend in Miami, Florida, Dec 4-7, 2008. Below are photos and a 26 minute interview I did with the co-founder of Open Ground Jenny Walty.
From Art Basel 1, 2008.
Making Marks exhibition at MOCA Jax
Making Marks at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville opened on 9-18-8. The show features 34 local contemporary artists from Jacksonville, Florida. I have nine drawings in this show from the Polar Brokers series. I took photos of the show and did video footage of the opening night and my work is near the end [...]
Globatron featured in Folio Weekly
Folio Weekly featured Globatron on September 2, 2008. Full article scanned.
Podcast of this interview in detail can be heard on Globatron.org in it’s entirety here.
Globatron.org begins national coverage
Globatron.org (previously JaxCAL.org) the site I founded in 2007 that ballooned to 130 contributors at one point with all contributors having full permissions back down to six contributors (in order to focus the content) a year later has gone national. Globatron.org is a contemporary art blog/portal that focuses on contemporary art and culture. [...]
Trophy Soldiers in the Seattle PI
Regina Hackett of the Seattle PI reviewed the TrophySoldiers.com show that was shown at Joe Bar, February 2008.
Times Union :: Artistic Survival
The Times-Union (8-3-7.) Byron King curated an art show in May at a Springfield gallery after using a variety of ways to connect with emerging artists from around the country on the Internet.
9th and Liberty Curated Show
A show curated from FecalFace.com user galleries :: A while back Florida artist Byron King had emailed to let us know that he was in the process of curating a show in Jacksonville. We said Okay, sounds good, 6-17-7.
