Recent Sculptures
Inspiration for my recent sculptures was born from historical iconic American mammals, which have given change to our social and moral landscape from conservation to the creation of our national parks and zoos, reflecting a snapshot of an essential American story at its root and still evolving. Looking for essential gestures, a moment where we record brief, but provocative memories.
These sculptures are created from recycled and new copper commonly used in construction, roofing & plumbing.
Tension between the negative and positive help create, a rich mix of passing light and contrast, giving life to the core. As pieces are shaped and soldered together an endless change to color and mass bind permanent harmony within them.
Chromatic Wanderers
These paintings are part of my series, "Chromatic Wanderers," where I knit together everyday realities with a vision of the physics that makes them possible – both events and contemporary inventions. I’m excited by modern transformative achievements and potential in fields as diverse as genetics and communication, but I have always been equally excited by the slow powers of paint on panel or canvas, which communicate the transformation of the spirit. Painting is part of much older human cultures, but I believe still well suited to capture the world as it is now.
To give the viewer a general insight into the creation process, these paintings are neither abstract nor apparitions, but rather constructed still lives that begin with discarded packaging from technological devices, simply objects and shapes that were created solely for technology by technology. These configurations are then manipulated and reshaped to become small painted sculptures to be used in a still life. I further separate these sculptural objects from their original context by creating dreamlike landscapes for them to exist within each painting. This separation of context also implies a spectrum of scale—from the microscopic to the macroscopic—inviting equally valid interpretation of these forms as subatomic particles or technological megastructures. For example, when creating the still life I often use the packaging from cellphones or other small technological devices.
I work to evoke the stately interaction of forces and forms at both ends of the universal scale, of ions and galaxies. Human beings and the everyday world of houses and buttons and buses, broken fences and lost cell phones, are all part of that. The electrical underpinnings of the cosmos, along with gradual harmonies, slow shifts in dimension and distance, light changing from morning through the afternoon, or downshifting across infinity: these are among the subjects that painting continues to address.