Current Position
Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Year Spring 2004
Medium Five-Color Photo Lithograph (edition of 30)
JOHN FOARD LYSAK-MASTER PRINTER, COURTNEY LORA LANG- PRINTER/ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, KATERINE McGINN, MARY MESMER, ERIKO FUJITA, JOHN DIDOMENICO-ASSISTANTS
Year Spring 2004
Medium Four-Color Screen Print, Letterpress, Gold Dust (edition of 38), Published by Egress Press. JOHN FOARD LYSAK-MASTER PRINTER, COURTNEY LORA LANG-ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ANDREW TODD-STUDENT PRINTER, KATHERINE McGINN-STUDENT PRINTER, ANDY FARKAS-AFFILIATED PRINTER (EPR RESIDENT ARTIST 2003-04), ANDI FLATLEY, MARY MESMER, ERIKO FUJITA, DARREN MYERS-ASSISTANTS
Year Spring 2004
Medium Four-Color Screen Print (edition of 21) Published by Egress Press. JOHN FOARD LYSAK-MASTER PRINTER, COURTNEY LORA LANG-ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DARREN MYERS-STUDENT PRINTER, ANDREW TODD-STUDENT PRINTER, SHARON SMITH-ASSISTANT
Artist Statement
Hitchcocks current art deals directly with issues of consumption in North America. After the death of his grandparents from cancer, he began a series of prints, digital photos, installations, and drawings. Hitchcocks work asks questions about the quality of the United States Department of Agriculture commodity foods distributed by the government for food assistance to indigenous lands, welfare programs, and to third world countries. In his installations and prints, he appropriates the silhouetted logo from the commodities (a cow from a can of beef and a chicken from a package of powdered eggs) to question notions of assimilation and control. These explorations have lead to broader questions about the proliferation of images in popular culture and mass electronic media that inundates our lives daily. What are the societal, psychological, and physiological consequences of globalization? What have we learned from progress? He examine these issues by re-contextualizing images from culture, electronic media, and food to question social and political systems.