I am a painter interested in experimenting with narrative forms, and discussing ideas that expose the complex elements woven into both our cultural and personal histories.  Most of the images I use are found in magazines and books from the first half of the twentieth century, that seem desperately to want to simplify the intricacies […]

I migrate between image and object as I address notions of memory and self. The self is not solid and fixed, but fluid and mercurial, as the changing contexts of life demand its constant reinvention. This is why memory is so fickle—it must conform to our ever-changing selves. Individual memory creates the self, but the […]

I like to use found, recycled, and scavenged materials in the art that I make. The whole world is full of potential stuff for making art.  It’s this potential for finding intrigue and unordinary beauty in everyday objects and materials that drives my art. Through art we can be challenged to become present in the […]

As a child when I was told that I was an artist, I would always retort, “No!” I like to make things. I made my tools my paint. I even used gumbo as a binder to mix some pigment I received from a sugar factory. I have carved stone, wood and some very special bark […]

See the Channel 20 news report about Sudhu Tewari and Nome Edonna from January 24, 2007.  Watch a video by Mark Gunnion of our art exhibition for Sudhu Tewari and Nome Edonna in January 2007. I am primarily a musician/instrument builder focusing on creating electro-acoustic instruments and electronics with which to perform.  I also create […]

Preview the Innova recording of Junkestra. At the old children’s playground in Golden Gate Park, there was an enormous rainbow play structure that was a warren of metal slides and tunnels.  My kids would disappear inside for long stretches — there was no way for an adult to follow — and I was left on […]

What makes a thing fascinating is to not completely know it.  It is this gap in our understanding that the imagination uses as its canvas.  Salvaged material is an ideal medium to make use of this principle.  A “found object” is just a familiar thing seen as though for the first time.  By maintaining this […]

See the Channel 20 news report about Nome Edonna and Sudhu Tewari from January 24, 2007.  Watch a video by Mark Gunnion of our art exhibition for Sudhu Tewari and Nome Edonna in January 2007. Art is the result of satisfying a constant inner compulsion to create.  My work is a personal (and at times […]

I undertake actions with various materials, often materials associated with construction, with the aim of uncovering either a link between the material and its past and future manifestations or pointing to a desire for such a link.  I look for simple gestures to enact on materials such as wood, concrete, paper, Styrofoam, sheetrock, spackle, or […]

Though my work begins with found objects, it is far from being “ready-made.”  Handicraft and mass production are brought together through labor-intensive transformations whereby various techniques are used to parse and reassemble the objects into new forms.  This attention to craft is confounded by the relative “disposability” of the materials and by the fact that […]