Embrace the Wrinkles
Parts 1-9
12x12
Time and Life Magazines on Canvas
As an Artist and Visual Arts Educator, I hold a firm belief in creating with the materials you have. Whether that means you use gifts, what you can afford or even what you can steal...It's more important to me that a person creates, than to cater to the art world's elitist notion that the art should outlive us and therefore the artist "MUST" use archival materials. Archival materials are pricey! Frankly, I am not really sure how much time humanity has left here and it's not important to me whether my work is "perfect" and long lasting. It's just another way for the art world to present a front of "loftiness" and inaccessibility to the public.
In turn, I present this series. It's highly imperfect. The paper used is very old, was stored in a basement in Cambridge for over twenty years. The images wrinkle when applying the non archival and affordable adhesive. The inexpensive stretched canvas that I chose is not totally flat. I chose it because it is easily made hangable in a gallery or home, without buying a costly and superfluous frame. But, most importantly, the wrinkles are a character in the story; an element of the periods represented. A tribute to many gone by eras. Last, this series is dedicated to my dad, who I wish was around to see it and who donated the magazines.
Yarrow
16x20
Mixed Media Organic Assemblage on Canvas
Butterfly Bush
16x20
Mixed Media Organic Assemblage on Canvas
American Puzzle
28x45
Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
Alte/ar Haul
16x20
Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
American Waste
30x40
In the last few years, I have been quite busy with my day jobs and caretaking for my Mother. I decided I wouldn't start anything new, unless I was covering over old work and using found materials. Below, are bottle caps, plastic cutlery, jewelry, straws, expired covid tests, business cards, cell phone, mask, silica packets, makeup, vinyl record painted with acrylic and oil based paint marker on canvas.
Ornamental Grass
40x40
Mixed Media on Wood Panel
Choking Oceans
24x24
Mixed Media on Canvas
Transautomatism
5x7 and 8x8
Ink Drawings
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Sentinel
8x8
Figurehead Echo
8x8
For My Dod
8x8
Wound Care
24x30
Ace Bandage and Acrylic on Canvas
In the Spring of 2022, my mother for whom I care, had a GI bleed in which she had to be emergency intubated. A month later, her legs swelled, blisters appeared and popped. We saw a lot of Dr.'s to try and figure out what was going on with her. Turned out she had kidney disease and we started going to a wound care clinic every week, with a visiting nurse coming in between to change the dressings. After 10 months of treatment and using lymph edema pumps every day for an hour, the wound healed.
We had an abundance of leftover supplies and like an innovative artist, I am always looking for ways to turn pain and obstacles into something more. Something people can learn from and witness.
La Pieta
I'm a paFrom 2000 to 2003, I worked on my final project for Hampshire college. it was a painting ehibtion titled "Iconoclastic icons; an agnostic's worship and it featured representation of religious art from christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism. this particular piece was my reimagining of michelangelo's famous sculpture, the madonna della pieta or also known as just pieta. I had given this painting to my father in 2003 but needed to take it back because he was moving to a location that could no longer accommodate an artwork of its size. the painting was quite dirty and had discolored due to the copious amounts of galkyd i had used in its creation. i cleaned it and repainted it this summer, restoring it back to some of its original presentation. ragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.
