The Turn, Turn, Turn Cataloge

Turn, Turn, Turn: The Artistic Synthesis of Vinyl to Art

The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, Florida



I built a 16ft. robot out of recycled vinyl records and album covers for this show. A lot of sleepless nights.



Rene Miville coordinator and promoter of Turn, Turn, Turn. This guy donated 30,000 records for this project. He's the man!

The show opened Friday April 2, 2010

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Donu

A unique art movement has emerged combining the dynamic and interrelated worlds of comics, anime and hip-hop, with the elements of modern cinema. This movement celebrates its multi-cultural, international influence on science fiction, action and adventure and other confluences within and surrounding present day artistic culture.

This movement is defined by an inspired, original approach to existing media that redefines the media itself.

In the spirit of this, we call this new genre “DONŪ” in tribute to the famed hip-hop producer J Dilla whose last work, the magnum opus Donuts left an indelible mark on that industry. DONŪ also makes reference to Katsuhiro Otomo’s masterpiece Domu. Katsuhiro Otomo has not only revolutionized anime in Japan but also redefined animation storytelling in the global entertainment environment.

This all came out of a conversation I had with Luciano Cunningham. At the time, Luciano was developing the concept for the book entitled Magnum Opus. The book would feature a group of artists that we knew that had a similar approach. It hit me that there was no name for this style of work.

Hip Pop Art

Hip Pop Art is a movement that I formed in 2004 that documents the transition of Hip hop from a sub culture to a pop culture. The inaugural exhibit consisted of four bodies of work, each crafted in a different medium. The first body entitled, Hip Pop terminology is an installation of trucker hats sculpted from clay, each hat bearing a word that has come to define the vocabulary of the hip hop culture. Hip Pop Environment, makes a general observation of the life style, through a series of original paintings and digitally altered drawings. The third, an installation called Wearable Hip Pop Art is four pair of “remixed kicks” or one-of-a-kind customized sneakers. This series illustrates the need of the Hip hop culture to create art in a wearable context, something it has consistently done from the very beginning. The fourth is the signature series Portraits in Hip Pop, which begins to compile a visual record of the innovators and contributors of the culture. The acrylic paintings do this with a clean, graphic aesthetic that is often mistaken for digitally altered photography or illustration.