From the always spectacular District of Columbia
I’m a self-employed, freelance graphic designer and production artist. At least I was one...
...for over three decades! But the busy-ness of my business took a downturn in recent years, due to several factors.
These days, I'm focusing more on my own art, or my own design-as-art and lifestyle-as-art, as somewhat explained in this website.
My professional graphic design portfolio is located on Adobe’s Bēhance platform.
I designed this traffic control box art wrap at 12th & C Street, SW, across from the Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) and close to the Potomac River.
The Traffic Control Box Beautification project is part of DDOT’s (District Department of Transportation) Arts in the Right-of-Way (AROW) Program.
The box was designed for SWBID (Southwest Business Improvement District) and features illustrations of some of SW’s “neighbors” living in and around the nearby Potomac and Anacostia rivers — crabs, cranes, ducks, and striped bass (Rockfish). Along with a five color palette, the “residents” are patterned with a compass rose highlighting the direction of Southwest.
It’s not a lie to say my art is in the Smithsonian!
Or at least that it’s available to buy, exclusively through the experience of using an Art-o-mat® machine! Go find it, on the 3rd floor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in the Gallery Place / Chinatown neighborhood of Northwest. While they last, the machine could feature:
• Snap! Pop! Art!
• Butterfly Effect 3
• Tangle Sculpture
• Jellyfish Porthole
Visit artomat.org for a complete description of Clark Whittington’s amazing longterm conceptual art project.
Coming this summer!
In punk rock camaraderie with the 40th anniversary of DC’s Revolution Summer, my looooooooooong planned silent art auction is finally scheduled to happen (in 2 parts), thanks to help from DC’s punkest gallery, Lost Origins, located in Mount Pleasant, Northwest.
Details are right around the corner, I swear...
I created a collection of fun & functional art-products, foremost for myself...
I created a collection of fun & functional art-products, foremost for myself...
...but also because I hope other people will appreciate them, and want to buy them. The collection was conceived during the Covid-19 pandemic and realized thanks to my DIY-punk ideology and print-on-demand technology.
Some of my art-products were selected to be part of the 2024 Regional Juried Exhibition of the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital on Pennsylvania Avenue in Southeast.
Where ya’ll from? Northwest Northwest!
I created a collection of fun & functional art-products, foremost for myself...
Since September of 1989, my home/apartment has been located near 16th & U Street, NW — just one block south of Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park and 12 blocks north of the White House.
For over 10 years, I’ve maintained a Tumblr blog called “It’s art if I say so,” a quote from my favorite conceptual artist, Marcel Duchamp, as well as my answer to the eternal question “what is art?”
I’m a big fan of Go-Go. Both the homegrown genre of music, and the G-League basketball team.
The Capital City Go-Go play from November to March at Carefirst Arena in Congress Heights, “Southeast- South- South- east!”
Night time, weekend games, always feature a Go-Go band playing court side, during time outs and at half time. How cool is that?
I’m also a big fan of the DC Public Library system!
The entire system is a jewel, but my personal favorite branch is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (the Central Library) in the Gallery Place / Chinatown neighborhood of Northwest.
The library is housed in a five story, black steel and glass building, originally designed by legendary German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
My collection is continually being improved and updated. Scroll horizontally to see the whole thing.
Available exclusively through the experience of using an Art-o-mat machine! Like the one in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) Luce Center!
Auction #1: Timeline 2011-2024, 13 artworks, plus Trevor Young’s Gulf gas pump turned floor lamp.
Auction #2: Timeline 1983-2010, 12 artworks, plus a set of 6 Raymond Pettibon SST Publications booklets.
