Whitespace gallery
October 6 - November 25, 2023
All hand dyed wool felt, wool yarn, silk habitat, silk organza, natural black clay, branch, silk thread, cotton thread, wood stain and root ball
80” x 35” 10”
2023
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes” - Agnes Varda
Ceramics, raku, hand spun and hand dyed yarn from loom waste, hydrocal, linen, vintage feather flowers, crow wings, pheasant wing, wish bone, snake skin, snake bones and mixed media
2023
Hand cast hands and feet with slip cast hearts based on milagros and ex-votos in Mexico City and New Orleans.
Secrets and wishes were written on paper and placed inside of the cast hearts before being burned in the raku clay process.
Natural black clay, wood branch, paint, and cotton thread
56” x 23” x 12”
2023
One for the blackbird, one for the crow,
One may die, and one will grow.
Porcelain, metal, and wool thread
25” x 25”
2023
A sculpture made of 108 slip cast snake vertebrae pieces. This is made from a 3-D rendering and print of snake vertebrae from snakes that I had 30 years ago.
The number 108 is nature’s secret code and Dharmic religions consider the number to be the distance of a person to God.
Vintage kimono silk thread, linen thread, hand dyed linen thread and ceramics
2023
50” x 42” 6”
Shoe strings, cast resin snake, thread, wool felt, hand dyed wool yarn, painted canvas, metal, gourds, and mixed media
2023
The ancient craft of weaving nets and webs is one of the oldest tools and is also what allowed us to land on the moon.
Hand blown glass, glass beads, filament, and curly maple
2023
Black bed sheets, pillowcases, pillows, hand dyed wool yarn, cotton, and mixed media
2023
“Don’t you worry I surrender
Days are long and life’s a bender
Still I know that
Tender is the Night.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bedsheets act as silent witnesses to many natural processes in life such as birth, puberty, pleasure, disease, decay, and death. Cloth is always touching us. Bedsheets can become a material on which to literally or metaphorically write our meanings and messages to the world.
Ceramic, rope, and cotton thread
2023
Almost a thousand life cast fingers from various people. From a practice rooted in a sense of touch. Like hands, they care, they work, they feel, they signal, they manipulate the world.
Ceramic, cotton, and hand dyed wool yarn
2023
A study made in the shape of a Korean drum and the idea that iambic pentameter sounds just like a heart beat.
Whitespace gallery
2023
Many questions arise from human universals. Human beings share the need for protection, the drive for connection, and the pleasures of touch. We are toolmaking, problem-solving animals, and social, sensory creatures. Cloth embodies all of these characteristics. The story of textiles is cumulative and shared, a human story, a tapestry woven from countless different threads. Working with textiles, found objects, and clay, I investigate themes of identity and memory in my interior and shared life. I have become intrigued by the power of the ordinary, the strong emotions that are evoked and sustained by anything as simple or complex as a shared experience, a vivid color, a dear person seen again, or a new landscape never seen before. Such things taken seriously, will reveal their unexpected significance and bring a sense of the extraordinary to the ordinary.
This exhibit is dedicated to the small things in life often overlooked in the grand scheme of things that can shape and contribute to major events in our life. Some of the stories the objects tell are of chance encounters or can present possibilities of a completely new way of thinking or appreciation of the mundane. These sculptures bring together a narrative as I follow the trail of the self through everyday life, gather memories and traces, work with materials and fragments, and interweave loose threads before the memory or story is forgotten.
The narrative presented in the pieces takes the viewer from the silent witness of a bedsheet to the myth of Arachne and the webs that all things share.
Artifacts of imagination, arranged in patterns and layers, each on their own and in conjunction with others evoke a container of secrets, entanglements, and a space where knowledge converges and condenses. Here are fragilities to be protected, meaning carried, woven, transformed, and shared.
This exhibit shows heightened attention to intimate connections and portraits of friends and places. The sculptures bring an intimate and emotional sensibility to the foreground while suggesting visual cues that bring you to another time and place. Every work represents a person or place from the past couple of years that have been in the artist’s life.