Hello all,
Some of my website hasn't been updated in a few months. My last show at Boulder Museum of Contamporary Art went very well. The most exciting news is a curator for the Denver Art Museum came to see the show and subsequently invited our performance group called "Farouche" to do performances as well as art installations for the opening of their new building. I will be creating an installation throughout the area showing some of the best known contamporary artists. Also, I will be creating an installation in their freight elevator using wood and elastic cord, which my colaborator, Onye, will use to choreograph 5 dancers to dance in and around. We will have one dancer on each floor doing the same movements as the dancer in the elevator, or such is the concept for now.
The opening is October 7th
Farouche is a performance group initiated produced and directed by Frances Charteris. This is our inaugural exhibition.
http://www.bmoca.org
http://www.bmoca.org/thecollection/

I have been very busy lately.
My other upcoming projects include:

DECONSTRUCTING WAR: VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ARTISTS FOR PEACE:
This is a group show in conjunction with the collaborative art group "Artnauts" headed up by George Rivera. This is the second in a series of shows which will tour the country (Israel & Palestine) starting at the Al Kahf Gallery in The International Center of Bethlehem. Palestine.
We are excited to announce that we have been sent work by artist Richard Serra to be included in our show and the accompanying catalogue. Copies of the catalogue will be made available through his gallery The Gagosian in NYC.
http://www.annadwa.org/cave/gallery.htm
http://spot.colorado.edu/~riverag/
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_144A.html
www.gagosian.com

CONCURRENT PROJECT IN lSRAEL - George Rivera last year had brought various art supplies as well as disposable cameras to Palestinian children in the Bethlehem area. He requested they put their experience on paper. As I was unable to make that trip, George and I have returned to approach jewish children just on the other side of the fence and complete the initial project. These children have lived in areas of constant strife their entire lives. We found a group of children from an area called Gush Katif. They were removed from their homes last August and placed in tent cities, until recently where they currently reside in a compound called Nitsaney. The drawings were almost all of memorises of their beautiful homes in Gush Katif; we are juxtuposing them with the realities of their present using the photographs they have taken with disposable cameras. This project has also sparked a submission to Colors Magazine where it will be on display at the Center Pompidou in Paris.
http://www.colorsmagazine.com/

RESOURCE:
Last month I was asked to do an installation at a venue called ReSource. ReSource is a construction materials salvage yard. The space is huge and includes a number of buildings as well as a fully functional wood shop. I was given carte blanche to use whatever materials they have on-site and to make whatever I wished. The project was received well and I was asked to return for another project which should take place next spring. For the next project I have asked a number of artists to join me in making their own separate installations, but in conjunction with each other. (I have been very excited about collaborative projects lately.)
http://www.resourceyard.org/
Included are:
visual:
Aristotle Georgiades http://www.arisgeorgiades.com/
Chris Lavery http://godzillalaughs.com/
Christian Tedeschi http://www.telegraphart.com/ct.htm
Lori Warren
ceramic:
Kim Dickey http://www.rulegallery.com/dickeyschnee.html
Sam Harvey http://www.harveymeadows.com/
graffiti:
Ainde Chong
dance/performance:
Onye Ozuzu http://www.colorado.edu/TheatreDance/dance/faculty/oOzuzu.html
Bethany Urban

MELANGE HOUSE:
Melange House is a monthly event held at the house of one of my collaborators Onye Ozuzu. Onye teaches modern afro-dance and is a very powerful artist and dancer.
Somewhat similar to 4 walls back in the 80's, the concept of Melange house is a more intimate venue for people of varied backgrounds to share their work and communicate on a variety subjects and from multiple perspectives. Each event has a specific theme and 10 artists are invited to present work, each of which is allowed to invite 3 guests to be audience as well as participate in discussion between works. After being a guest for one of these events, I have been lucky enough to be in two others.
Melange House is an Onye / Kwesi / Sojourner production.

STRING DANCE (not the official title)(to be shown at the Denver Art Museum Oct. 7th):
O.K. this one is tough to describe in words, but here we go. After seeing one of my string installations Onye came up with a concept for a dance where I create patterns in space with string-yarn-cable and she and two other dancers choreograph a dance allowing them to move very quickly and staccato like through a seemingly web maze of my installation. The audience will be invited to enter the space before the dance begins, but it will be difficult for them as without the knowledge (or perspective) of one knowing the specific movements the dancers will be doing they will have to manipulate their bodies around the installation to get to the open seating area in the center.
http://www.stevesilber.com/portfolio/1.htm

GENERAL SCULPTURE:
I have been working on a series of paintings as well as sculpture in wood. One series I am particularly interested in is one in which I install wood flooring in a space, but then stacking the wood on top of each other I create a very geometric form. Once sanded smooth, the effect is a sculpture which morphs out of the wood flooring. Among other things this is a physical tie between the space we use daily and are familiar with and that which is new and draws our attention. It is a morph not only based in physicality, but as well in the increase in what seems to be a shift in artists and standard art venues from the conceptual towards elements of design. (I can't tell you how many artists I know who have begun to work for design firms as their main outlet for creativity. (Just an observation.))?