General
Acres
Chicago/Indpls.
© 2008-10


Acrylic paint on plywood, 23-3/4“x36”, spring 2005.



Dan Rockhill lecture poster design for the College of Architecture & Planning, Ball State University;
Fall 2006.




Book of patterned envelopes, handsewn, 54 pages, 2007.





60 page architectural thesis book, 8.5” x 7.5” full color, dental floss binding, hardcover, 2004. Edition of one.














56 pages including centerfold, 6.5" x 8" full color laser print, side-stitched, found wallpaper cover, 2004.
Edition of one.



Horserider - 28 pages of drawings and found images, black & white, 2007.
Edition of 50 - $4.00
Email info@generalacres.com to purchase a copy
Available soon at healthymgmt.com










Sweet Lou
24 drawings, black & white, cream-colored cover, saddle stitched, 2007
Limited hand numbered edition of 25 - $8.00

Email info@generalacres.com to purchase a copy
Available soon at www.healthymgmt.com


Logo and identity for the North Central Indiana Baseball League, 2003.


T-shirt printed from a handcut sticker stencil, fall 2005.
Other stencil shirts in progress.



glUe: The Architecture Student Journal of Ball State University, Volume 5; 2004
208 pages, b&w perfect-bound, gatefold cover numbered edition of 500

General Acres as editorial and creative direction - staff of 10.












Parallelogram & Steps
An ongoing collection of shape drawings done on $0.98 posters. The drawing method is different for each poster.

2008-Present


Beginning of a series of new book jackets for old books. They will be available through the guys at healthymgmt. com soon. For now you can email us if you're interested in us re-creating your book covers.
2009-Current

 


Amateur Surveys - First solo show for GeneralAcres.

Hank & Dolly's Gallery, Indianapolis, In. Nov. 2009
Coinciding show catalog available soon at HEALTHYMGMT.COM








1,000 5.5” 40# red cable ties
on a chain link fence under the elevated train tracks, 2008 - Chicago



61 - 8” 40# orange ties
57 - 5” 40# red ties

February 2009, Chicago




Team A is an architecture collective with strong interests in materials and reuse. When the library started removing date due cards in favor of printed receipts we reactivated the cards as business cards by adding the Team A information and preserving the original marks of use.


Bus Depot
San Angelo, Texas 2003

An ongoing series of NBA player illustrations.
Pictured from top, left to right: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tom Chambers, Kurt Rambis.
(2003-Current)

Storage shed in the woods of Indiana, 2002.




Ongoing series of rule-based drawings.


(Above) Untitled, Collage, 14" x 16.5", 2008





Tape Grid #1 , Masking tape on panel, 24" x 36 ", 2009 (and detail)

GeneralAcres is an ongoing aesthetic experiment conducted by Kyle Schlie and K. West. Here you will find a limited selection of independent and collaborative works between the two artists.
Projects are currently ongoing.

Please email for more information on projects or send post cards to:
GeneralAcres / 2844 W. 21st. Place / Chicago, IL 60623
info@generalacres.com


GeneralAcres is affiliated with:
www.healthymgmt.com
www.team-a.org
www.one-man-crew.com
www.canyousign.com
www.onesmallproject.com
www.thetrapezoidsleeps.blogspot.com





Website links
added 3.11


Marina
Bombay Beach, California 2003






Series of architectural installations
in abandoned home using found materials and no electricity; Muncie, Indiana 2004.

Keywords: accidents, chalk-line, chance, circumstance, control, lath, obsolescense,
plaster, plumb, process, robert irwin, rubber bands, rule-based, sol lewitt, & time