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.

Nothing Is the Same Remembered Twice

Nothing Is the Same Remembered Twice

Nothing Is the Same Remembered Twice

Close-up photo of House shaped steel sculpture with wire and mixed media incorporated into the structure

All I Know – detail

Welded steel structure, annealed steel wire, blown glass coral, rocks, blown glass globes.

House shaped steel sculpture with wire and mixed media incorporated into the structure

All I Know

2017 – 50″ x 23″ x 23” Welded steel structure, annealed steel wire, blown glass coral, rocks, blown glass globes.

Suspended Fears.detail1

Suspended wire sculpture with horn bell shape at both ends containing rocks and glass and rocks in the middle.

Suspended Fears

2017 – 13″ x 5’ x 13” Annealed steel wire, beach rocks, blown glass

Suspended Fears.detail2

Reconstruction – installation

Homage to Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Picasso made with layered, stitched and textured aluminum screen stretched on an salvage metal frame.

Les Demoiselles d’Birmingham

2017 – 37” x 47” x 1.5” Aluminum screen, annealed steel wire, salvaged metal frame.

Suspended bar-bell shaped sculpture made with rocks, tumbled glass shards and shells

Delicate Balance

2012 – 14″ x 34″ x 14” Annealed steel wire, beach rocks, tumbled glass, shells

Suspended bar-bell shaped sculpture made with rocks, tumbled glass shards and shells.

Delicate Balance – detail

Annealed steel wire, beach rocks, tumbled glass, shells.

Homage to Les Demoiselles dAvignon by Picasso made with layered, stitched and textured aluminum screen stretched on an salvage metal frame.

Les Demoiselles d’Birmingham-detail

2017- 37” x 47” x 1.5” Aluminum screen, annealed steel wire, salvaged metal frame

Les Dems WIP – print 3

8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper

Shadow made from light to a creative homage to Les Demoiselles dAvignon by Picasso made with layered, stitched and textured aluminum screen stretched on an salvage 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 1

8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper

Les Dems WIP- Print 6

8.5″ x 11″ Print on photo paper

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

Abstract image pattern stretch on a frame made with stretched, cut and sewn aluminum screen

Small Repairs

2017 – 26” x 36” x 5” Aluminum screen, annealed steel wire, wood frame

Abstract image pattern stretch on a frame made with stretched, cut and sewn aluminum screen.

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

Les Dems WIP- print 8

8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper

Broken teacup and saucer reconstructed with wire.

MisMatch-one of set

4″ x 13″ x 7” – each. Annealed steel wire, broken/tumbled teacups and saucers

Arm shaped wire sculpture with hand holding a large rock made with glass shards and round bone beads.

Small To You/Big to Me

2017 – 6” x 15″ x 6” Annealed steel wire, wood, rock, tumbled glass shards, bone beads

Arm shaped wire sculpture made with glass shards and hand holding a big rock

Small to You/Big to Me – detail

2017 – 6” x 15″ x 6” Annealed steel wire, wood, rock, tumbled glass shards, bone beads

Broken mismatched teacups and saucers reconstructed with wire.

MisMatch

2012 – 4″ x 13″ x 7” – each Annealed steel wire, broken/tumbled teacups and saucers.

Broken teacup and saucer reconstructed with wire.

MisMatch-one of a set

4″ x 13″ x 7” – each Annealed steel wire, broken/tumbled teacups and saucers

Suspended Bra and Panties sculpture made with wire, broken and tumbled dishes, with wire and glass bead lace around the edges

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.

Bra made with wire, broken and tumbled dishes, with wire and glass bead lace around the edges

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

Les Dems WIP- print 5

8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper

Panties made with wire, broken and tumbled dishes, with wire and glass bead lace around the edges

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

High Heels made from broken wine stems, with small crystals on the soles and copper bows on tops.

Cheap Wine Pumps

2012 – 7″ x 10″ x 9.5” Broken wine stems, crystals, annealed steel wire, copper bow

Wave shaped sculpture made with steel wire, tumbled glass shards, beads, rocks, and objects

Detritus – detail

2012, 22” x15”x15” Annealed steel wire, tumbled glass, North Shore beach rocks, found objects, personal mementos

Les Dems WIP – print 4

8.5″ x11″ Print on photo paper

Wave shaped sculpture made with steel wire, tumbled glass shards, beads, rocks, and objects

Detritus

Detritus – 2012, 22” x15”x15” Annealed steel wire, tumbled glass, 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

Wave shaped sculpture made with steel wire, tumbled glass shards, beads, rocks, and objects

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

Sculpture made with wire, using shells and tumbled glass jar top for iris and rock for pupil, that looks like an eye with eyelashes.

Eye’m Watching

2012 – 8″ x 13″ x 1.5” Annealed steel wire, rock, shells, tumbled glass

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