Musicality, Metaphor, & Metonymy (sculpture)
These sculptures have grown out of images of medieval images of green men, misericords, Hopi Kachinas and carvings in wood and stone from the 11th to 15th century.
The artwork I create is a coming to terms with being human and a faith that there is something bigger than this temporal world that we are all leaning into. In addition, developing out of seventeen years of being a part of and leading “shadow work,” I'll admit that with a wry smile the art aims in part to create a portrait of the psycho-social identity of the 21st century.
The use of assemblage in the work represents the amalgamation of events, genetics, relationships and life that create who we are. Just as these figures are made out of this object or this piece of history, so we are a manifestation of moments in time, our loves and pains, this location, and the narrative we locate ourselves within.
“Miro,” mixed media assemblage, 9”x7”x5”, 2022, $200
“Remington,” mixed media assemblage, 9”x7”x5”, 2022, $200
“Pipilotti,” mixed media assemblage, 9”x7”x5”, 2022, $200
“Munch,” mixed media assemblage, 9”x7”x5”, 2022, Private Collection
“Lichtenstein,” mixed media assemblage, 9”x7”x5”, 2022, Private Collection
"He Remembers Her"; 22"x18"x3", Mixed media assemblage and acrylic. 2022, $600
"I Will Not Misbehave in Art Class" 20"x17"3"; Mixed Media Assemblage and Acrylic; 2022, $600
"When We Had Lions"; 22"x18"x3"; Mixed Media Assemblage and Acrylic; 2022, $600
Oh Jonah (front view); mixed media assemblage (including wood, offering plate, gold leaf, carved fish, lock parts, keys, tin, wooden floats, and brass Faberge egg holders), oil paint; 24”x22”x12”, 6/14, (Private Collection)
Oh Jonah (above view); mixed media assemblage (including wood, offering plate, gold leaf, carved fish, lock parts, keys, tin, wooden floats, and brass Faberge egg holders), oil paint; 24”x22”x12”, 6/14, (Private Collection)
She Remembers; mixed media assemblage (including wood, tin, tintype photos, blown glass, watercolor tin, and brass), oil paint; 22”x17”x10”, 6/14, (Private Collection)
everal Good Ideas; mixed media assemblage (including wood, folk carving, bottle cap, fishing spinners, glass and brass), flashe & oil paint; 18”x14”x9”, 5/14, (Private Collection)
Bounty; mixed media assemblage (including wood, stirrup, English tins, fishing spinners, door plate, glass, lock parts, scroll saw work, and Indonesian trivit), oil paint; 20”x10”x7”, 6/14, (Private Collection)
Saltimbanque; mixed media assemblage (including wood, tin, flower frog, glass, carved bear, wise men figures, brass, and vintage milk labels), oil paint; 22”x14”x10”, 6/14, Private Collection
Jack; mixed media assemblage (including wood, found objects, tin toy tool kit box, air pump, iron pump, keys, bullet, buttons and tin), oil paint; 19”x10”x7”, 6/14, (Private Collection)
Sticks (front view); mixed media assemblage (including wood, blown glass, tin, toy shovel, trowel, and 1950’s pick-up-sticks toy tube), oil paint; 20”x10”x7”, 6/14 (Private Collection)
Sticks (side view), mixed media assemblage (including wood, blown glass, tin, toy shovel, trowel, and 1950’s pick-up-sticks toy tube), oil paint; 20”x10”x7”, 6/14 (Sold/Private Collection)
Mr. Murphy; mixed media assemblage (including wood, found objects, boy scout first aid kit, smoking pipes and tin), oil paint; 17”x8”x12”, 6/14, Private Collection
King Charles; mixed media assemblage (including wood, toy blocks, brass leaves, copper ball, metal, folk sculpture of church, and tin), oil paint; 10”x12”x8”, 6/14 (Private Collection),
Ministering Tributary (front view); Assemblage with flashe paint, 26"x26"x18; 1/14 Traveling in France, Austria, and Germany with students in the summer I have seen many reliquaries with bones, hands, heads, pieces of the cross, clothing of saints, parts of the cradle the Christ child was in, and the like. I find these containers of sacred materials fascinating. They historically for many were an embodiment of hope, mystery and faith. About nine years ago I did a watercolor of a disembodied head crying and a deer drinking from the stream he was creating with his tears. Hanging on the walls of my studio, that was the inspiration for this piece. Like a legend or myth, the head in the center through its tears and sorrow provides life and healing for the creatures around it. Heartache and hardship are a natural part of life that I feel can move one on to better and bigger things when given permission to be fully expressed. Goodness, truth, integrity and even life has a cost. $1,200
Ministering Tributary; (side view) Assemblage with flashe paint, 26"x26"x18; 1/14 Traveling in France, Austria, and Germany with students in the summer I have seen many reliquaries with bones, hands, heads, pieces of the cross, clothing of saints, parts of the cradle the Christ child was in, and the like. I find these containers of sacred materials fascinating. They historically for many were an embodiment of hope, mystery and faith. About nine years ago I did a watercolor of a disembodied head crying and a deer drinking from the stream he was creating with his tears. Hanging on the walls of my studio, that was the inspiration for this piece. Like a legend or myth, the head in the center through its tears and sorrow provides life and healing for the creatures around it. Heartache and hardship are a natural part of life that I feel can move one on to better and bigger things when given permission to be fully expressed. Goodness, truth, integrity and even life has a cost.
Ministering Tributary (detail)
Redemption Cycle; mixed media assemblage, 32"x21"x5" 12/13 I couldn’t help but think of the books: Pilgrims Progress, Dante’s Inferno, Hind’s Feet for High Places, and the writings of George MacDonald (Phantasties & Lilith) while creating this assemblage. Life is a process and I found myself musing on the layers, the trials, tribulations and joys that are an integral part of our years of walking on this planet. Some layers you go through again and again, some travel through backwards it seems, others run through several times, some maybe stay at one level or place their whole life. It’s a process full of humor, grace, and absurdity. One figure sits on the left looking into the piece, the other almost identical to the first sits on the right looking out of the piece. He’s the same, but different than before. $900
Release; mixed media sculpture including wood, glass, metal, gold leaf, found objects and oil paint, Private Collection
Parousia, mixed media assemblage (including wood, found objects, brass and tin); 16"x15"x8," (Private Collection)
Tender, mixed media assemblage (including wood, found objects, and pate’ de verre glass); 12”x16”x9”, $600
Goodness mixed media assemblage (including wood, found objects, glass and metal); 22”x24”x14” (Private Collection)
Burden (sculpture) Mixed Media Assemblage, 10" x 8" x 6" (Private Collection)
Stream; mixed media assemblage (including wood, found objects, and copper); 14"x8"x8," 3/12, (Private Collection)
Muse (sculpture); mixed media assemblage (including wood, wire, and glass rods), 18"x8"x10" (Private Collection)
Purge; mixed media assemblage (including wood, found objects, plaster, foam, brass and metal)); 13”x26”x12”, $600
For Family; 10"x8" kilnworked glass, $200
Home Shelter; 10"x8" kilnworked glass, $200
Watch This Space; 10"x8" kilnworked glass, $200
Remember; 10"x8" kilnworked glass, $200