Diva/Dish Acrylic paintings on vinyl placemats, (November 2010) Josephine Baker, Lady Gaga, Kate Bush, Janelle Monae, Laurie Anderson
Sissyphus Remix I: Up the Spine (2010); Sisyphus Remix II: Each Cell its Perfect Work (2010) / Acrylic on canvas A surprise email from an old friend who moved to Philly yielded a request for two groupings of Sisyphus paintings. He bought some from the MOVE show in 2004, and wanted these new groupings to [...]
Argus Nest / Closeup of collage-painted surface at Artica. Collaboration with Lezlie Silverstein, 2004. If these walls could speak, their story be always changing. I love to use art and language to shape and shift an environment. A few proven guidlines for me ~ either by invitation or permission, or easy to remove / non-damaging. [...]
Born into Color: an Installation at The Community Arts and Movement Project, July 2010 The show, during CAMSTL’S Open Studios 2010, included paintings, drawings, and sculptures created during project residency at CAMP from April 2009-June 2010 when I lived and volunteered as the Events & Outreach Coordinator. My residency goals were to broaden my perspective, [...]
At top: Incubator (2004)/ Ink and acrylic inside traffic cone Left: Discovery of the Instrument at the See Six States Tower (2004) Center: Collection of unused/forgotten (2002) / Traffic cones in china cabinet Right: The Instrument (2005) / Oil on canvasboard
Topple / After Brughel’s Tower of Babel One of my favorite images to paint and paint again, I imagine the top of the ‘hourglass’ is the universe’s mirroring our attempt to “build up to God” . . . . the complete shape is the story of our reaching and remembering how to speak and live [...]
The Tree of Knowledge of Gooeyville / Oil and collage on canvas (2005) The Living Tree / Community Installation at St. John’s Episcopal Church (2005-2006) The first art I remember making for public consumption was a poster contest that won me a bike in first grade: after a big ice storm I drew a picture [...]
Top: Burrowing a Wormhole in the Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil (2006) / Acrylic and oil on wood panel Bottom: Rend (2006) / Acrylic on wood panel
The Acknowledge Wall / Temporary interactive mural installation on Cherokee Street (Cinco de Mayo 2006) It was a strange and wonderful spring. I was learning to feel and discern the distinctions between intuition, vision, and paranoia. I would go sit in the rubble of the Empire Sandwich Shop that had fallen and sing songs. I [...]
Godbits Over the Soufide: Collaborative show with Bob Reuter at the Third Floor Gallery St. Louis, Missouri (2004) Vacancy Moat/Mote Home is the Backside of a Mirror P.S. Archpocalypse (Creation Myth in the Making) All works: 4′X4′ Collage, acrylic, and oil on panel From the catalogue: I like the conversation that art starts. I like [...]
Icarus/Icaro I,II,III,IV For Venus Envy, St. Louis, Missouri (2004) All works: Oil on panel 3′X3′
SPREAD / Painting Show at Messhugah, St. Louis, Missouri (2003) Virus / After Coreggio’s Jupiter & Io Fingers / After De Ribera’s Jacob Deceives Isaac Legs/ After Courbet’s Origin of the World Fire / After Froment’s Burning Bush Rumor / After Durer’s Joseph in Egypt Panic/ After Bosch’s Extraction of the Stone of Madness Terror/ [...]