2011 Art in the Sixes Show 11.19-12.21

Update: all four SOLD at the 11.19 opening!!!

Open Edition digital photos inkjet printed on 8.5" x 11" onion skin paper glued to 5" x 5" x 1/2" plywood...submitted to the Alliance Gallery for the Art in the Sixes show-- $40 ea

Soot Floats For Some Time

It's Hard To Brush Your Teeth & Cry At The Same Time

the sun shines and the park looks very cheerful

If We All Lied There'd Be No Point In Lying

The Big Picture & The Small Picture At Odds

Saving Us The Trouble

For A Long Time, The Body was Nowhere

How do we understand each other? In response to this article from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/world/asia/31herat.html?_r=1

Within Walking Distance of Town

The terms Are Clear:

This Is What We Know. The Rest Is Gravy.

a new project continued: Community Artifacts

" Learning To Be Relative"

2011 digital image

a new project begins: Community Artifacts

making new friends...figures are approx 6"-8" from 'aged' tin cans

"Umm, Forever Is A Long Time"

Reproduction Experiments
digital images

"Forever, Perched In The Same Position"

Inkjet print on onionskin paper, pastel, charcoal, ink on luan. 26"x26" roughly

Mirror Cells

Does It Mean To “Die of Natural Causes?”
digital image

"One Big Debate Being Argued On Multiple Fronts"
digital image

"We Don't All Want The Same Things"
digital image

Parcels of Air

Legible In Reverse

Digital Images

Garden of the Sleeping Giants

Basement Language

Examining More Than One Truth (Hypertufa II)

My artwork is made from garbage, the waste of consumption (including my own) and scrounged detritus from a carelessly littered landscape. Oddly, it is a collective portrait that exudes a sense of abandonment and loss. To further strain the edges of the gorgeous and the absurd, these paintings won’t survive unless kept indoors, hanging on a wall or put into storage bins. With a sidelong glance, I was looking at paintings that began with a question: What is sacred? and sensing them as mere precious objects.

After an exhibit of my paintings—and in general—I am asked (first) if I’ve sold anything. After I mention that I’m pursuing an MFAIA, I am asked (first) what it will be used for. Those moments clobber me, everything stops. And a space opens up:


What is Enough???


Hypertufa is an artificial stone material that is made of several different aggregates (I used peat moss + perlite) and mixed with Portland cement. It is much lighter than cement but can still withstand harsh weather conditions.

Imagine having the sense that you came here to say something, only to find it has slipped your mind > > >


Tufa, also called travertine or dripstone, is calcium carbonate, CaCO3, formed
* in stalactites, stalagmites, and other deposits in limestone caves,
* as incrustations around mouths of hot and cold calcareous springs
* along streams carrying large amounts of calcium carbonate in solution

Hypertufa has been around in Europe in various forms since the early 1800’s. It originated as a replacement for tufa sinks and troughs, which where expensive and difficult to find.

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Parcels of Air