Gallery
I create pieces with non-traditional mediums, reinterpreting the familiar in a way that challenges one’s preconceived notion of its original purpose or image. Natural, manufactured, found, and repurposed materials bring their own history to the pieces they are incorporated into. Structure is achieved by connecting and suspending these disparate materials and their origins together with different weights of annealed steel wire. Aluminum screen can be sculpted by stretching, draping, and gathering. Layering, manipulating, and appliqueing the screen conveys chromatic tones of transparency and opacity. These materials and processes allow me, through my art, to artistically explore the spectrum of experiences and concepts of repairing, rebuilding, reinvention, loss, reclamation, beauty, ugliness, flaws, perfection, and irony.
Les Demoiselles d’Birmingham
2017 – 37” x 47” x 1.5” Aluminum screen, annealed steel wire, salvaged metal frame.
Les Demoiselles d’Birmingham-detail
2017- 37” x 47” x 1.5” Aluminum screen, annealed steel wire, salvaged metal frame
Les Demoiselles d’Birmingham – shadow
2017 – 37” x 47” x 1.5” Aluminum screen, annealed steel wire, salvaged metal frame.
Reconstruction – Installation
Les Dems WIP- Print 6
8.5″ x 11″ Print on photo paper
Reconstruction – installation
All I Know
2017 – 50″ x 23″ x 23” Welded steel structure, annealed steel wire, blown glass coral, rocks, blown glass globes.
All I Know – detail
Welded steel structure, annealed steel wire, blown glass coral, rocks, blown glass globes.
All I Know
2017 – 50″ x 23″ x 23” Welded steel structure, annealed steel wire, blown glass coral, rocks, blown glass globes.
Les Dems WIP – print 9
8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper
Small Repairs
2017 – 26” x 36” x 5” Aluminum screen, annealed steel wire, wood frame
Small Repairs-detail
2017 – 26” x 36” x 5” Aluminum screen, annealed steel wire, wood frame.
Les Dems WIP – print 3
8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper
Suspended Fears
2017 – 13″ x 5’ x 13” Annealed steel wire, beach rocks, blown glass
Les Dems WIP- print 8
8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper
Small To You/Big to Me
2017 – 6” x 15″ x 6” Annealed steel wire, wood, rock, tumbled glass shards, bone beads
Small to You/Big to Me – detail
2017 – 6” x 15″ x 6” Annealed steel wire, wood, rock, tumbled glass shards, bone beads
Les Dems WIP – print 3
8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper
MisMatch
2012 – 4″ x 13″ x 7” – each Annealed steel wire, broken/tumbled teacups and saucers.
MisMatch-one of a set
4″ x 13″ x 7” – each Annealed steel wire, broken/tumbled teacups and saucers
MisMatch-one of set
4″ x 13″ x 7” – each. Annealed steel wire, broken/tumbled teacups and saucers
Les Dems WIP – print 1
8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper
Domestic Bliss – gallery installation
2012 – 30″ x 15″ x 15”, Bra – 21” x 15″ x 15”, Panties – 15” x 12” x 12” Tumbled broken dishes, annealed steel wire, glass beads.
Domestic Bliss – bra
Bra – 2012 – 30″ x 15″ x 15” 15” Tumbled broken dishes, annealed steel wire, glass beads Annealed steel wire, broken and tumbled dishes, glass beads
Reconstruction – installation
Cheap Wine Pumps
2012 – 7″ x 10″ x 9.5” Broken wine stems, crystals, annealed steel wire, copper bow
Les Dems WIP- print 5
8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper
Domestic Bliss – panties
2012 – Panties, 15” x 12” x 12” Tumbled broken dishes, annealed steel wire, glass beads Annealed steel wire, broken and tumbled dishes, glass beads
Les Dems WIP – print 7
8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper
Delicate Balance
2012 – 14″ x 34″ x 14” Annealed steel wire, beach rocks, tumbled glass, shells
Delicate Balance – detail
Annealed steel wire, beach rocks, tumbled glass, shells.
Les Dems WIP – print 4
8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper
Detritus
Detritus – 2012, 22” x15”x15” Annealed steel wire, tumbled glass, beach rocks, found objects, personal mementos.
Detritus – detail
2012, 22” x15”x15” Annealed steel wire, tumbled glass, North Shore beach rocks, found objects, personal mementos
Les Dems WIP-print 11
8.5″ x 11″ Print on photo paper
No Pressure
6” x 6” x 6” 2012 Annealed steel wire and rocks
Detritus
Detritus – Art Prize 7- installation 2012, 22” x15”x15” Annealed steel wire, tumbled glass, beach rocks, found objects, personal mementos.
Les Dems WIP – print 10
8.5″ x 11″ Print on photo paper
Reconstruction – Installation
All I Know, Les Demoiselles d’Birmingham prints, Small Repairs
Eye’m Watching
2012 – 8″ x 13″ x 1.5” Annealed steel wire, rock, shells, tumbled glass