Upcoming Performance
Thursday, May 19 7:00p to 8:30p at Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, KY
This avant-garde performance work by artist Theo Edmonds explores the concepts of: (1) Nature (DNA) vs Nurture (religion, politics, FB, peer pressure, homophobia, racism, elitism, violence, etc); and, (2) the role of “free will” in determining self-worth and identity. The audience becomes a participant in an interactive experience which combines elements of: visual art; genetic science; absurdist theatre; and,unflinching, unapologetic poetry. Read more about this performance by clicking here.
Opening of New Studio
I will be opening a new studio in Lexington beginning in June. But, everyone is invited on Friday, May 20, 2011 to stop by for a preview of the new space. Also on view will be several works of art, created in Miami and during my time as visiting artist at University of Kentucky, that have never been shown publicly. The open studio will take place from 5-8pm at 261 Midland Ave.
Recent Press
I was honored to be Skirt! Magazine’s “man in a skirt” in their May 2011 Issue. Click here to read full article.
Recent Award
Sleep, Tigers and Happy Boy Days
Mixed-Media Installation
Size: 96” tall x 124 wide x 15” deep
Materials: oil stick on cardboard mattress box, rope, artificial feathers, fabric pieces, ink drawings on paper/plastic, collage, artificial birds, wood blocks, plastic sheep, graphite drawing on wall
Awards: 2011 Round #2 International Showcase Winner / Installation, Artslant.com / Click here to visit my profile on ArtSlant.com
More about the work above….
Sleep, Tigers and Happy Boy Days mines the relationship between seen and unseen things by exploring the ephemeral, contextual use by humans of inanimate objects. More fundamentally, the piece examines the role of personal need, life experience and memory of an individual in determining the present value and meaning of an object within one’s possession. Inanimate items, such as a discarded cardboard mattress box, become transitory objects given new value (i.e., as part of a work of art) and new meaning (i.e., as the boundary of a world in which a narrative operates).
Additionally, because the work consist of a graphite drawing on a back wall which relates to 3-D objects operating within defined space, there is also a certain theatrical tradition of proscenium storytelling that is called into play when one views the piece. Like an audience member in a theatre of the mind, a master narrative and characters interact with the subjective experience of the human possessor/viewer. A viewer who will make choices about how he or she relates to the object(s). A human possessor who, by his or her very nature and like the objects, consciously or subconsciously, understands the experience of a temporary existence.
