VIDA Design - January 2005 - present
Designer / Artist / Director
VIDA Design creates photographic installations; and produces graphic design, architectural design, and original studio furniture. The studio explores the boundaries between design and art; historic and modern; photography and drawing; art and science; conceptual and vernacular; the handmade, fabricated, and virtual.
Studio ToDo - photographic portfolio
The University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Co-Principal Investigator – The MIND Institute
“The Neuroscience of Creativity”
Funded by the Templeton Foundation. July 2007 – July 2010
Directs art component of study including portfolio evaluation, subject and study group selection, and curates artists-in-residence participants. Develops additional grant proposals and presents at classes and conferences.
Project Director and Installation Designer – Neuro-Esthetic Art Research (NEAR)
Working with Iraq war veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to produce an original installation incorporating scientific imaging and personal photographic histories. In collaboration with the Santa Fe Art Institute. Residencies and exhibition planned for the 2009 season “Memory and Healing”
Associate Director – Arts Technology Center (ATC)
August 1999 – August 2005
Responsible for all aspects of programming for ATC, a research center focused on the creative interchange between art and technology. Projects developed, designed and funded include: “Cultural Practice, Virtual Style: Artists Residencies in High Performance Computing” funded by the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation; “LodeStar: Artists Projects in Digital Domed Theaters/Planetaria” funded by the Ford Foundation; and “The Digital Pueblo Project” funded by the National Science Foundation.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
1997 – present
University of New Mexico, College of Fine Arts – Department of Art and Art History, Electronic Arts; Photography; IFDM (Interdiscipilinary Film and Digital Media); and University Honors Program.
The College of Santa Fe - Photography, Graphic Design
Institute of American Indian Arts - Photography, Graphic Design
Select Recent Photographic Projects
Installation
• New Mexico Public Art Purchase Initiative
• Auberge de Rancho Encantado, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico.
• SafeCo Corporation, Seattle, WA
• United Bank of Denver
• Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, permanent installation, AIDS Wing
• “Vehicle” – Albuquerque Museum of Art 2001, billboard commission
• Art & Action Project, City of Los Angeles Public Art Program
Exhibition
• Finesilver Gallery – Houston and San Antonio, Texas
• Inde / Jacobs Gallery - Marfa, Texas
• CCA (Center for Contemporary Arts) Santa Fe
• Rule Gallery - Denver, Colorado
• Kornelia Tamm Fine Arts, Santa Fe
• Price - Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe
• The Denver Art Museum“New Additions to the Collection / Photography”
• Exit Art, New York
• MIT, Cambridge, CA, "Image and Meaning"
• ASCI - Digital Art 2006, New York
Represented by Inde / Jacobs Gallery, Marfa, TX; Rule Gallery, Denver, Colorado; and David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
Select Recent Design
• Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation
• positiveneuoroscience.org
• Auberge de Encantado, Santa Fe
• Gin Alley – media marketing and consulting, Houston
• Torch – Houston
• The Museum of New Mexico Foundation
• Tulips Restaurant, Santa Fe
• Trey Jordan Architecture, Santa Fe
• Susan Trowbridge and Associates, Santa Fe
• Jane Smith Interiors, Santa Fe, Aspen
• Iris Environmental
• John Hopkins University, School of Medicine
• Mothering Magazine
• The National Forest Service
• Outside Magazine
• The Santa Fe Opera
• Stanford Business Magazine
• Southwest Airlines Magazine
• Success Magazine
• Tower Records
• Paramount Pictures
