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    • Carrion - 2020/2021
    • Painted Works 2015 - 2019
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    • Sonic Arts Overview and Recorded Collections
    • Legacy Musical Works (1998-2016)
  • Installation
    • Corvallis Garbage Fest (2022)
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    • Sidebottom (2018)
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    • Multimedia Works (2013 - Present)
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Johnny Beaver

Sidebottom (2018)

Sidebottom was an installation by Johnny Beaver and Shawn Creeden (http://shawncreeden.com/) that ran in Oregon State University's Woodshop Projects gallery during the month of October, 2018. Born of a desire to collaborate without restraint, this artwork was a semi-improvised orgy of material and shared influence, forming around a love for the surreal setwork of the Jim Henson Company in the 1980s. Specifically referencing Fraggle Rock, Sidebottom focused on the multi-layered class-based reality of that world, as manifested through the lens of Boober's free wheeling alter ego, Sidebottom. Sidebottom (the installation) was a cultural construction, building its own mythology as it went. The exhibition culminated in a closing reception, the "Dont'zer Equinox," that consisted of a series of performative actions with an emphasis on sound and destructive visual transformations to the environment.
Echoes of this installation existed for quite a while after the work was removed, though the building as since been renovated and the space no longer exists.

For videos see my YouTube channel.

  • Aura(l)
  • Social
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Instagram
    • YouTube
  • Visual
    • Carrion - 2020/2021
    • Painted Works 2015 - 2019
    • Painted Works 2004 - 2015
  • Sound
    • Sonic Arts Overview and Recorded Collections
    • Legacy Musical Works (1998-2016)
  • Installation
    • Corvallis Garbage Fest (2022)
    • WIPES (2019)
    • Sidebottom (2018)
  • Side Projects
    • Multimedia Works (2013 - Present)
    • Foundry (2016-2017)
  • New Media
    • Rubble (2021 - Present)
    • SLLEEPdotnet (2018-2021)