ACQUIRED!: CRISPR ROUTR

This 40 x 30” work is off to a collection.

It’s from the ‘genetically modified’ CRISPR painting series where the visual genes — strips sliced from separately made paintings or painted post-cutting — are recombined (interleaved or spliced) to create a new painting. This particular piece has thousands and thousands of individual strips, and was created during an art residency at the Banff Centre. For this particular work, individual slices and whole sections were dipped in ink and then interleaved. Later the work was sanded to give it a sun-bleached or aged look.

The work reveals subtle details with close or repeated viewing — tectonic fissures, rough edging, horizontal striations. (Kinda like viewing a linear mandala or a zen garden, or wave sets on the ocean, or a waterfall that appears constant but changes when close up…

STUDIO VIEW ADIEU

In-studio works: CRISPR Blu, a painting/sculpture composed of 1000s of individually shaped discete visual units (blue from the front, but reveals as orange/pink/purple from an oblique angle); next, an assemblage of some of the smaller works in the CRISPR series assembled on the wall.

The CRISPR series are “genetically modified” paintings, where discrete visual units — slices from paintings, are spliced together into a new form. They are sculptural, and reveal differently from different angles.

(Inquire for specfic details on works)

The Window (Threefer)

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A study of the diversity and velocity of the modern metropolis…

Images from the ongoing photo series “The Window” by K.I.A. (See pages 1-6 on the sight, email for password, prints, nfts, and exhibition inquiries).

“Crosswalk Catwalk”:

“Movement Not Moving”:

Read about the below image “The Wandering Bishop” HERE.

The Map Is Not That

The Map Is Not That (The Map Is Not the Territory) 84 x 60”, oilstick on folded aluminum.

Navigational and star charts, satellite shots, gps, glyphs, geography, molecular maps. Micro to Macro. Photons and suns. Flatness vs. vastness, circles against grids.  “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” -- maps (art) as abstraction of a reality that is not possible to accurately capture. A map can never be correct -- it would have to be the size of the land to be so... and even then, to be accurate, would have to include that map, and so on. Map as different from a mirror, or a window, but still not reality. “Real Housewives Of” is anything but that.

But sometimes... though the map is not the territory, the abstraction -- the poem, the painting --- can actually give truer insight (and reality can shadow.)

The substrate in this painting is bent like an unfolded map; concavities have been drilled into the many-layered colors, and they, along with the scored, scratched and sanded metal grids, luminesce as you move; silver light trails and sparkles highlighting/undermining the 2D/3D elements, and the matte of the medium.

Other works on aluminun, 84 x 60”, (more about HERE):

And also these recombinant and intermixable aluminum panel works (more about HERE); below are a few of the infinite arrangements of the works, see the link for the “seed” (original) paintings:

Aurora, Comet, Cloud Chamber...

A sculpture, a volumetric line drawing, an installation, variable in scale. Permanent or ephemeral. The below sculpture “Aurora” is 144 x 60 x 48” and is adaptable in shape and size to various settings. Future works in this series are to be absolutely enormous (and colorful). The inspiration for this was auroras, comets, van allen belts, electricity, subatomic cloud chambers…

The work builds on the other sculptures seen below, all of which are single works created from mutliple component parts, the purpose of which is so they can be transformed in scale and shape, and meaning, (and ship easily.) Much of my work (paintings, sculpture, installation, and photo projects) is constructed this way - in no smal part to highlight the beautiful precarity of life (change always) and how larger systems are composed of unique discrete parts (the forest is the trees / the forest is not the trees, the individual is not the collective, etc).

Left: two separate paintings, each made of dozens recombinant panels, intermixed; Center: conduit tree, made from hundreds of component parts, Right: NDF, a work made from hundreds fo feathers, darts and needles. All are variable in scale and shape. The below works is a enormous and complex volumetric painting/sculpture, in development (and awaiting an ambitious curator).

Many more works like this on the site; poke around…

Genetically Modified Found Wind (Acquired)

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This work is from the ongoing CRISPR series. They are GMAs (gen mod art), with their visual DNA — taken from multiple paintings — sliced and spliced together to create new works. They are also digital/analog hybrids, in that each of the 1000s of spliced elements are discrete, like a pixel, but they are analog (exist IRL, cut from paper). The component pieces are meticulously placed together to create a cohesive abstract with a complex and optically-shifting surface with a type of retinal rhyme scheme.

This particular work is actually made from found wind from various geographical locations; that is, the wind (mountains, a lake, a prairie, etc) was used to drift the paint on various flat substrates, which were then chopped up and intermixed.

(Acquired recently by Canadian art collector).

A recent work in the series CRISPR BLU (50 x 40 x 3”) , acrylic on archival paper. Thousands of hand-cut units of paper, each entirely unique. This particular work presents hyper-blue from the front (with silver edging), but at oblique angles multiple colors are subtly revealed (magentas, purples, oranges, reds).

License Shinjuku Zulu / K.I.A. songs for film and tv productions

Master and synch rights to all K.I.A. and Shinjuku Zulu songs are 100% owned by the artist. To license Shinjuku Zulu or K.I.A. songs for productions, contact HERE . One stop quick clearance for Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A. songs tv series, movies, commercials and other productions.

Multiple songs by Shinjuku Zulu as well as K.I.A. have been licensed to tv series, MOW, and film productions around the world. (MTV, FOX, CBS, ABC, FX, CBC...) . There are vocal and instrumental edits for most songs. Songs can be pre-cleared for use, and multiple use (needle drop) deals are possible.

Grammy-award winner Sheryl Crow recorded K.I.A.'s song "Mrs Major Tom".

FOUR STAR REVIEWS: "Sheer brilliance, haunting vocals…top ten of the year”, - GLOBE “Breaks,house,reggae, exotic vocals… warrants repeated listens” -GAZETTE “Good dubby house, good electronic dancehall… urban dance at it’s best”-EXCLAIM "Ambitious trans-continental mashups, melds components elegantly" -POPMATTERS -2

Artists: 1 ) K.I.A. 2) Shinjuku Zulu. -6 albums (70+ songs). -Note songs: "That Groove" (dance), "Allelujah" (chill), "Make Me Shake" (sexy r & b), "Segue" (electronic climactic chant), "Uneunoia" (ambient instrumental)

All songs registered with SOCAN / ASCAP

SHINJUKU ZULU and K.I.A. songs by content / mood / style / theme, some examples:

SHINJUKU ZULU songs on Spotify: LINK

K.I.A. songs on Spotify: LINK

Singer songwriter songs for license: (theme)

K.I.A.:
Mrs Major Tom (lost love)
Hummingbird (love)
Box the Gnat (romantic love)

SHINJUKU ZULU:
Sweetness Likes the Reverb (love, accapella)

Dance songs, party club songs for license:
K.I.A.: Eyeah
SHINJUKU ZULU: That Groove, SXYLV


World / regional songs for license: (LINK)
K.I.A.:
Allelujah (ancient choral chant + electronic)

SHINJUKU ZULU:
Segue (global chants + beats)
Tuktuyuktuk (chants; hypnotic, otherworldly)

Songs about peace , unity, anti-war. getting along:
SHINJUKU ZULU:
One Come We
Allelujah

Songs about melancholy, loneliness, sadness, moody songs:
SHINJUKU ZULU: Broken (hums, blues vocals, ambient beats)
K.I.A.: Rise Up, Dubmarine

Songs about dating, sex:
SHINJUKU ZULU:
Make Me Shake
SXYLV

Songs about technology, dystopia, the future:
SHINJUKU ZULU:
We Do Supersonic
Massive Ballerina
SXYLV

Songs about diversity, equity, inclusion:
SHINJUKU ZULU
Shanghai Masai (rap)
Be My Woman Be My Man (male Vox)

Songs about Freedom:
SHINJUKU ZULU: Freedom

Songs about love:
SHINJUKU ZULU: Slow Is the New Fast
K.I.A.: Hummingbird, Feel It, Box the Gnat

Songs about speed:
SHINJUKU ZULU: Slow Is the New Fast, We Do Supersonic

Songs about relaxing, mediating, chilling out:
K.I.A.: Scatter, Dubmarine, Rise Up, MMM

K.I.A. song breakdown for Sonorous Susurrus album

Shinjuku Zulu song breakdown for Kiss the Honey, Honey

Shinjuku Zulu songs used in tv & film productions:
SHINJUKU ZULU: That Groove, Make Me Shake, Dirty Liar, We Do Supersonic, Be My Woman Be My Man, Kiss the Honey Honey, Hey La, Segue, The Way You Move, SXYLV, Slow Is the New Fast

K.I.A songs used in tv & film productions.:
Allelujah, Uneunoia, Eyeah, Nevermine, Be My DJ, Rashomon, Almighty Beat, PS/AT, Losing My Mind, Howdydaomaori, Sensation

EXHIBITION VIDEO - architectonic auras, unstatic art, wall jewels

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Static photos don’t show the work well (nor does seeing the work online, the in-person person experience is much more transformative), so here’s some video walk-throughs… (CONTACT to see IRL)

The works are about ephemerality, instability, transformation and awe… (see web pages for more info)

EXHIBITION - Kirlian cities, Genetically Modified Wallworks, Alchemical Paintings

Shifts & Auras. Exhibition (Toronto): To come see the works in person Nov.27/28, or by appointment contact HERE

SHIFT: The studo show features larger “scupltural” paintings on thousands of slices of spliced paper (which reveal detail and color from different angles), a number of small works with complex textured/painted/crystaled surfaces, and a couple of larger works on canvas (archtiectonic auras).

CRISPR PAINTINGS: More in the series HERE. Genetically-modified artworks, the individual ‘visual genes’ of the painting cut n paste edited like in the gene-editing CRISPR technology.

SMALLS:

Rashomon works, the painintg shifting constantly. Alchemical spliced paintings, acrylic, ink, crystals on paper. 16 x 16” framed (13 x 12” unframed). The meticulous linear surfaces disurpted/enhanced by the random faceted surface. Flattened Faberge eggs, a Kurt Schwitters brooch, genetically modified cyanotypes…

WORKS ON CANVAS: Left: Metatropolis series Right: Shift series. The Metatropolis works are Kirlian cities - architectonic auras. The Shift series were done en plein air, at specific sites - some in -20 degree weather - using local “data” (flora, etc) to “GPS” the work to the location.

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L.A. Art Collector: "No There There" acquired

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“No There There / No Hear Hear” by K.I.A. as installed a at Los Angeles art collector’s home. 84 x 60” Oilstick on industrial reflective tape on aluminum. (Part of the Transformer series.)

The work is transtemporal (like much of my work) -- there is a complex bas-relief texture of a Victorian petit point motto that reveals beneath the 21st century material. This work fuses the silver palimpsest series, and my linear mandala/DNA spectrogram/sliced collage approach.

The text reads "No Hear Hear, No There There", expanding on the Gertrude Stein quote about unreliable memory and perception of place, and emptiness, to include 'here/now' and not just 'then/there' ('Hear' aurally sounds as 'Here'). The mirror tape is utilized for another layer of the palimpsest, forming an abstracted digitalesque map of Oakland, GS's hometown. (Re: a map is not the territory, never is the actual place, just like memory...)

The reflective quality of the work allows the colors in the room, or the viewer, to resolve/dissolve into the piece. It also creates a shifting or unstable optical appearance as one moves around the work, with the different textures or sections luminescing at different angles or time of day.)

No set Time. No concrete Place. No set Meaning* -- interpretation of the phrase shifts when using a different sense -- one hears "Here" but sees "Hear", so the text can simultaneously be understood as  "No praise, No comfort" (no encouraging claps of "hear, hear" from the crowd, no comforting pats of "there there" from Mom.)

*Final feint: the title of the work is actually "Here Her, There He"

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New Works page

Added a “New Works Page” to gather current projects for those who don’t see the blog..

See it HERE

New Old Archive

Going to be slowly adding older posts from the previous site, in a non-linear fashion. Click to see the first new old post: Remixing, Sampling, Scratching, Looping Art