Installations | Exhibitions
Material Things | Slender Threads, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, Colorado, 2019
Material Things | Slender Threads – This exhibition introduced a new series that uses quilt fragments as the base of the work. Individual works can also be found on the mixed media page. The quilts came from a quilt box that resided on the sleeping porch of a home with family ties. No one lived in the home for decades, but much of the contents remained. Many images of the home and it’s contents can be found on the photography page. Some works contained letter and music fragments as well. In addition, this exhibit included work from an on-going series incorporating rust, carbon, markings and image transfers.
Traces, solo exhibition, Xposure Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2001
Residual Voices, solo exhibition, Right Angles Gallery, Pensacola, Florida, 2000
This exhibition included the sculpture seen here, works that integrate rust, carbon and markings from bakeware with acrylic polymers, and other mixed media work on metal. The sculpture is free standing, bound with rivets and wire and had kitchen sounds and voices coming from the structure during the exhibit.
Ties That Bind, solo installation, Zinc. Contemporary Art, Seaside, Florida, 1996/97
Ties That Bind, solo installation, Zinc. Contemporary Art, Bluewater Bay in Niceville, Florida, 1996
These installations include mixed media, photography, sculpture, and sound.
Much of this work has evolved from a unique process of lifting rust, carbon, and markings from charred surfaces mainly bakeware. The work explores layered and diverse meanings incorporated in everyday, overlooked objects one would find in the home. The work incorporates numerous domestic items…quilts, fabric, pans, pot lids, napkins, as well as rust and carbon. Participation in the work involves not just the visual, but sound, smell, taste, and touch. The viewer is invited to look more closely at that which is and has been experienced on a daily basis. Objects and images take on multiple, often contradictory, meanings leading to diverse interpretations.
Similar work and additional information can be found under mixed media and sculpture.