Gallery
I create with non-traditional materials to challenge the preconceived notion of their original purpose. 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. Annealed steel wire, allows me to translate a drawn line into 3-dimensions. Combined with aluminum screen that I stretch, paint, sculpt, drape and stitch, the work also benefits from screen’s inherent properties of transparency and opacity. These materials and processes allow me to artistically explore the spectrum of experiences and concepts of repairing, rebuilding, reinvention, loss, reclamation, beauty, ugliness, flaws, perfection, and irony.
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 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.
All I Know
2017 – 50″ x 23″ x 23” Welded steel structure, annealed steel wire, blown glass coral, rocks, blown glass globes.
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
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
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
Detritus – detail
2012, 22” x15”x15” Annealed steel wire, tumbled glass, North Shore beach rocks, found objects, personal mementos
Detritus
Detritus – 2012, 22” x15”x15” Annealed steel wire, tumbled glass, beach rocks, found objects, personal mementos.
Detritus
Detritus – Art Prize 7- installation 2012, 22” x15”x15” Annealed steel wire, tumbled glass, beach rocks, found objects, personal mementos.