the a list

This is another addition to a series of artist books I’ve been creating over the past several years. It features a collection of untitled images and photographs that come together as a unified whole. I find satisfaction in this collection, as it represents the result of years spent taking photos, modifying them, setting them aside, and rediscovering them through the power of computer search algorithms. Recently, much of my effort has been focused on this rediscovery process—searching through thousands of photos and images I've accumulated over the last 20+ years to uncover emotional and visual connections. I hope you enjoy the book. Please let me know what you think.

these paint cards are artifacts of my paintings.  I frequently use paper to lay over blobs of paint on the canvas to create a worn, speckled effect.  I usually save the paper I use for this purpose for additional design touches and then mount them.

 This... is another in a series of small handmade books I've been building. This one is much more free form and blends collage, prints, stickers (yes lovely, lovely stickers - a childhood obsession) and other miscellaneous ingredients. 

  A small little book/graphics project I finished up in early May 2022.  

  This is... a collection of various accordion books I've crafted over the past few years. Behind the video is the song "We're In Love - There's the Song (Instrumental)" I recorded in April when I had a bout with omicron BA.2.  The books are mainly filled with handmade print blocks I've created in the same few years.   

  Blooms: a poem and illustrations by andrew furst  was a fun little staple bound book project that balanced whimsy and and precise planning. Part of the humor comes from the cutouts that pull in partial images from the next page.  They amplify the absurdity of the poem and the images themselves. What is more absurd than falling into pants?  Well, for one thing - fish in pants! These were limited edition.  The one in the video is my sole copy.    Let's talk if you'd like to purchase it.

  In case you were wondering

  This multimedia print came to be eight or nine months into the pandemic. It spans a few decades in origin.  The number 3 recalls a numbered series of paintings I created before my kids were born. The relief number print shares space with some abstract mono printing, an ascemic treatment of our nation's motto E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one), and some colored pencil. As you can see here, during the most intense periods of the pandemic, I signed all works with the acronym CVP - for Corona Virus Pandemic.

How it's made. walk around, a lot. see things, stick them in your pocket, or take a picture. store them in boxes. organize the boxes. throw out some of the things. use others. combine them with other things. make variations. go back to the first impression.  someone else picks the 5th one. puts it in a magazine .  you take it from here.