Drawing is the process that most closely reflects the thinking process. It has a plasticity that makes this action spontaneous, receptive and malleable. It is an image that is built up in response to the mark, shape or form that just preceded it. My works are a record of the thinking process and like a line on paper that has been erased it still remains a part of the image albeit faint such as a memory it influences the next mark we make and the final image as a whole.
This series is inspired by the work being done with the Large Hadron Particle Collider in Cern Switzerland. I begin with a digital print on canvas and paint back onto print to achieve a push pull between illusion and surface.
This is a work inspired by the research being done at CERN, Switzerland. Mixed media on paper, 32"x36"
Linticular images of historical political figures in China along with images signifying power in Asia juxtaposed with images of nature. 4ft x 4ft Date:2015
Digital print and paint on canvas 5ft x 6ft
Carbon paper drawing 32" x 36"
Carbon paper Drawing 48" x 60" Back lit with florescent light.
Date: 2015
Mixed media on Paper 32"x36" Inspired by the energy of a tornado on the landscape.
Date: 2015
Ball point pen on vellum 30"x36" Depicts the spinning movement of a storm.
Date :2015
Mixed media on paper 20" x20" 2016
Mixed media on paper 20"x 20" 2016
In response to erratic weather over the last few years. Mixed media on paper. 20"x 20" 2017
Abstracted image inspired by observations of our cosmos. 20"x 20"
Mixed media on paper 2017
Inspired by observation of the cosmos, and the movements and actions of the celestial bodies. Mixed media on paper 20"x20" 2017
I am interested in artwork that expresses shared values with the community that hosts the work and finds meaning in the context of place. In several instances the work of art can serve to inform the public and act as signage or landmark. Many of my projects incorporate functional elements, such as seating or lighting. My public works make use of a variety of durable materials from fiberglass colored concrete, ceramic tile to cast bronze and plastics with LED light and water. The ephemeral works in adobe are site specific and designed to weather back into the earth over a period of years. I view each situation as a new opportunity to create works that function as a catalyst for dialogue rather than a monologue. Color, bold forms and a keen sense of materials are some of the strategies that I employ to create work that evokes a positive experience.
I embrace collaborating with the community, other professionals and stakeholders in this unique endeavor.
This public artwork is located on the five story parking deck in down town Greensboro, NC. It is in three parts, 1. The 6' x'6 designs along the upper most level, 2. The vac-U formed wheels on the three exposed sides of the garage and 3. The time line of the history of transportation formed in ceramic (1957 Chevy Nomad) along the low pedestrian retaining wall. The Wheels act as signage for this parking deck at night when they are lit from within the translucent wheels with LEDs.
Completed: 2009
This one of two hand made ceramic and copper murals that flank the entrance to Florida International University, Miami, FL.
Each mural is 10ft x 40ft Long
This is made of earth cast cement with a colored veneer of white cement and plaster with pigments. The pigmented walls differentiate an interior and exterior. The walls are solid cast. These works are designed to weather away over a period of years back into the ground from which they came.
Size: 12ft x 29ft x 15ft
Location: ArtPark, Lewiston, NY
This is the parking deck in down town Columbia, MO.
Made of neon and hand made ceramic tile. The design is a stylized spinning wheel and lights up at night to become a land mark for the parking deck. Hand made ceramic tile complete the spinning wheel outside the glass atrium and onto the brick building.
Located on the campus of Millikin University, Decatur, IL.
Made of earth cast cement. 14ft x 30ft x17ft. Colored veneer of plaster and pigments. Solid wall construction.
This is a mural of hand made ceramic tile. 10ft x 40ft located at the community center in Dade County, FL.
Made of earth gathered here along the Buffalo Bayou, Houston ,TX
The earth is mixed with cement and in this case applied over a wood frame 3 inches thick. This work was designed to be taken down after six months. Iron oxide in plaster was used to create the design on the surface.
This is a permanent work along the Delmar Loop, St. Louis, MO
Each of the seven totems is dedicated to a group of diversity that make up this unique area. The Totems are 33ft tall made of fiberglass and have LED lights in side the top element of each pole that act as lighting at night along this sidewalk to the Pageant Theater on "The Loop"
Billboard, Digital print on canvas 10ft x 46ft date-2014 on top of the Good Citizen Gallery, St. Louis,Mo. Image was inspired by the work being done with the large hadron particle collider, Cern Switzerland. This billboard was then connected to a drawing device inside the gallery that made marks on paper responding to the movement of the billboard by the wind.
Wood, ceramic and rubber. 9ft x 18ft x2" in relief.
This work is inspired by the research being conducted with the Large Hadron Collider in Cern Switzerland.
Date: 2012
Hand made ceramic plates, stones and rubber 11ft x15ft x 2" relief, 2015
Kansan City, Mo
Made of cast clay and dirt, 13 ft x 34 ft x 16 ft with colored pigments in plaster on the interior walls. 2014 on the Campus of The University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC.
This sculpture is made of stabilized earth 11' x 12' x 5' Located on the grounds of The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art just seven blocks North of the border. Built with help from students and community members. Image is inspired by the "House of the Governor" at Uxmal, Yucatan Mexico it symbolizes hope for free open passage with our neighbors to the South. 2017
This is the fresco like painting on the inside of the Portal. Made of adobe with pigment in plaster. 11'x 12' x 5' as the sculpture weathers away the objects embedded in the walls will be seen again. 2017
This is a 34"x 65" image of the home on the US side of the border wall. It is sliced into 6" strips and attached to the Mexican side of the 6" post that make the border wall. As one moves past it the image opens up so the real house aligned with the image of it creating the illusion of a hole is the bars. This was a temporary installation.
As we move past the image it opens up so we see the real house and the image of the house simultaneously. Digital print on panel, 34" x 65" Temporary installation on the Border wall at Brownsville, Texas. 2017
