Art does not sit outside the market. How a work is priced, owned, and exchanged is part of its meaning. The commodity form must be considered part of the art form.
POSITIONCAPITAL ACCUMULATES. MERCHANDISE CIRCULATES.
THE GREATER THE PRODUCT, THE LESS I AM MYSELF.
This website documents my work and introduces my approach to art work.
I am less interested in making objects for sale than in what happens to art after it is made: how it is owned, displayed, circulated, and remembered. I use the term creative operator because my work involves both making things and managing how they are produced, placed, used, and maintained.
Five positions guide that work.
The conventional art market treats original objects as assets to be acquired. I retain ownership of my one-of-a-kind works rather than offering them for sale.
Access does not require ownership. Leasing and installation allow original works to enter new spaces and audiences without compromising authorship of the encounter.
Some ideas are meant to circulate widely. Merchandise, publications, and digital products give the work forms that can be purchased, used, shared, reproduced, and collected. These distributed objects may develop secondary markets; unique originals remain outside that exchange.
Cultural work depends on labor as much as objects. Most of my work consists of design, production, and installation services through Kuhns, Inc., in partnership with organizations and creatives.