" Klaus-Vineyard and the cast have honored Mac’s play, but kicked it up a notch with their with great attention to making the characters’ internal conflicts seem real. Access is a theme around which much of Taylor Mac’s work revolves. Defunkt lets you in for a while to a version of Mac’s past, through a joy ride of the transformative power of play. " -Oregon Artswatch

 M/JOHN/W  is the latest release from Boarding School on Le Garçon Sale Records . M/JOHN/W originally appeared as part of the score for Defunkt Theatre's multiple award nominated production of Cock by Mike Bartlett . The ambient sound design composition appears here in a slightly reworked form.   You can grab a copy here, it's pay what you will as always!

Bedroom Series (David no. 10)  ©2016

 Actor and writer David for the bedroom series.   David and I have worked together on numerous theatre productions over the last decade and was a pleasure to finally get him in front of my lens wrapping up the bedroom series. 

In Bloom 02 ©2016

A new series taking low-res archival and unused photos from my past work and manipulating and abstracting them with an eye towards graphic design and graffiti.   

Bedroom Series (Clifton no. 35)  ©2016

 After appearing in two back to back critically acclaimed stage productions (Cock by Mike Bartlett & the controversial masterpiece Blasted by Sarah Kane) up and coming actor Clifton  tries out a new role as model for the Bedroom series. A Midwesterner relocated to the Pacific Northwest Clifton is a talented actor on the rise and we look forward to his continued success in the near future.

Passages (Clifton no. 01) ©2016

      Actor Clifton  has had quite the year with the lead roles in Cock by Mike Bartlett and  most recently in the critically acclaimed production of Blasted by Sarah Kane (both staged at Defunkt Theatre).  A gifted and tremendously talented actor ( and first time model) one of the final participants of the Passages and Bedroom series which comes to it's conclusion this month.

Passages (Nick Mattos no 04) ©2016

Author Nick Mattos joins the Passages series. Nick has been a long time friend and collaborator having appeared in my film I Am Not Myself Today, the feature film Spark and in work created for Pulse.  Nick was a long time contributor to Just Out and PQ Monthly among other publications writing on spirituality, relationships and LGBT issues. 

Bedroom Series (Christopher Hall no.01) ©2016

 Artist Chris Hall joins the ranks of the Bedroom series. The Portland-based multimedia artist mixes painting, photography, and projection based work critiquing social issues in our media culture.  Only three more models remain for the series. Lucky 13. then collected into book form and slide show for presentation.

Passages (Christopher Hall no. 01) ©2016

 Artist Chris Hall joins the ranks of the Passages series. The Portland-based multimedia artist mixes painting, photography, and projection based work critiquing social issues in our media culture.

Andy J © 2016

                                  
Eight naked men, in alphabetical order in my bed.  As I finalize the last remaining shoots for the bedroom series in Portland and gear up for my next grand adventure this summer I thought I'd revisit some of the previous shoots with a few outtakes. Enjoy

Heliotrope no 01 © 2016

Heliotrope continues the glitch based deconstruction of archival photos taken in the late 90's-early 2000s. The images were shot with low res early digital cameras and are being manipulated through a variety of apps, and processes before final printing. It's a dialog between the artist I once was and the one I have become.

Broken Bits no. 01 ©2016

 Broken Bits series is inspired by the late 80's early 90's childhood and teenage years- specifically the glitches seen in Nintendo NES games. Combined with that other adolescent obsession like late nights, contraband porn, and horror movies the aesthetic is a scrambled nightmare of have concealed pixels based on source material form my archives. 

As if I haven't been busy enough between producing theatre and my art career I'm actually hard at work in my fleeting off time on a new Boarding School record tentatively titled Automatic Hiawatha. It'll be out sometime before the end of 2016 but I decided to drop a teaser of a few tracks (still in demo form) in the meantime.
Enjoy. 

Viridescent no. 01 ©2016

New series Viridescent sort of spontaneously birthed itself out of the Digital Debris practice. More4 focused on impressionisti, painterly manipulated portatuer than the repatitive pop art style of debris' fractured glitches.  It's yet another exploration of the way technology interfaces with expression.  Memory has always been best represented as a disolve to me, an inkblot bleeding at the edges of perception and conciousness.  A little nightmarish, a little sexy, a queasy green feeling of fear and envy.

Jon, Anaglyph Angel ©2016

This collection of recent works from my on-going Digital Debris series are an exploration of new technologies, Pop Art call backs, and embracing glitch, and data bending applications as a form of art making.  They serve as 21st Century process paintings; crunching low rez archival works, HD selfies and video stills into technicolor Rorschach tests.

Bedroom Series (Mike  no.01) ©2016

Cinematographer and artist Mike V Murphy joins the ranks of the Bedroom series. A recent transplant to Portland,  Mike has worked in photography, design, and film as well as cinematography. You can check out his work HERE  
Mike is the 10th model for the series so far.

Passages (Mike no. 04) ©2016

Cinematographer and artist Mike V Murphy joins the ranks of the Passages (and bedroom series) . A recent transplant to Portland, Mike has worked in photography, design, and film as well as cinematography. You can check out his work HERE.