Visual Artwork Portfolio for the SARF 2018 Application
First Place Woman Transformed 50 Times on May 16, 2014
50 unique color digital photographs
14" x 11" each
Edition of 2 plus 1 A.P.
2014
This series documents - in fifty unique photographs - one single trophy transforming over the course of a 24 hour period in my studio with clay, paint, collage, jewelry and beads.
Portrait of My Other Side (Imagine), 2015
From the series My Other Side
Chalk pastel, gesso, flowers, ink, body, half-shaved head
Color pigment print of private performance
Dimensions variable
A series that explored the transformation of one object, much like First Place Woman shown above, but instead of a sculpture the transforming object here was my own body and large drawings I made on canvas.
The Never-Ending Book of Women's Rights, 2014 - Ongoing
Slate pieces in varying sizes, colored pencils, acrylic paints, songs, names, and writing
Dimensions variable
This series, begun in 2014, is my container and witness for the never-ending work of bringing equity and humanity to the women in this world, the nearly 4 billion alive today and the many more who who have paved the way and are still to follow. It is a never-ending project that naturally evolves into different shapes, or daughters, over time. As it's original form, as shown above, it remains the "mother" - made of varying sizes of slate "pages" and installed in a gallery exhibition space. It's current active form (2018) is a series of original songs about the female matriarchs of my known and unknown family history.
WATERFALL VISION, 2015-2016
Black and white acrylic and gesso on 84 pieces of slate
Installed as two cascades: 280" x 36" x 1/4" (23' x 3' x 1/4")
Each slate: 20" x 12" x 1/4"
This painting in two cascades is shown here at The Carnegie Museum of Art, in a group exhibition where it won the Jack Buncher Prize. It is inspired by Niagara Falls at the time of the American civil war.
WATERFALL VISION, Details of Six Panels, 2015-2016
Black and white acrylic and gesso on 84 pieces of slate
Installed as two cascades: 280" x 36" x 1/4" (23' x 3' x 1/4")
Each slate: 20" x 12" x 1/4"
SIT BEAR, 2016
From the series I Eye Witness, 2016 - Ongoing
Chinese ink, gouache, acrylic on 6 pieces of slate and assembled on the wall
Total wall installation: 50" x 60" x 1/4"
Individual pieces: 4" x 8" x 1/4" - 16" x 14" x 1/4"
I Eye Witness began in 2015 with roughly sculpted slate pieces that become mural-sized wall installations of fragmented animal bodies: half human, half other. They are painted and marked with Chinese ink, gouache, nail polish, and acrylic paints. They function between drawing, painting, and sculpture and have recently evolved into the series Deep See.
MONKEY AND BEAR BACK TO BACK, 2016
From the series I Eye Witness, 2015 - Ongoing
Chinese ink, gouache, acrylic on 19 pieces of slate assembled on the wall
Total wall installation: 60" x 60" x 1/4"
Individual pieces: 3" x 3" x 1/4" - 13" x 12" x 1/4"
I Eye Witness began in 2015 with roughly sculpted slate pieces that become mural-sized wall installations of fragmented animal bodies: half human, half other. They are painted and marked with Chinese ink, gouache, nail polish, and acrylic paints. They function between drawing, painting, and sculpture and have recently evolved into the series Deep See.
The remaining artworks (below) are all from my most recent, ongoing series Deep See, begun in 2017. These directly reference the whale fossils in my collection, specifically the inner ear fossil I mention in my application proposal. This series is a natural extension of my earlier works with collage, assemblage, canvas drawings, and fragmented animal bodies. Drawing directly on the walls themselves much of the time, the series includes natural and unnatural materials including slate, Mexican clay on paper, canvas, ink, the American flag, my own body, chalk pastels and water to form assemblages. These now become more dynamic scenes of prehistoric, contemporary, and future bodies of the self as/with the other. They are documented for camera and printed as pigment prints in various dimensions.
HIDE AND SEEK, 2017
From the series Deep See: Dive, 2017 - Ongoing
Drawing and assemblage with chalk pastel on chalkboard wall, water, slate, American flag, my body, canvas mask, Mexican clay on paper, fabric
Dimensions of space: 7' x 12' x 10'
Documented for camera
Printed as pigment color prints
Dimensions variable
WHAT IS HAPPENING?, 2017
From the series Deep See, 2017 - Ongoing
Chalk pastel and water on chalkboard wall
Dimensions of space: 7' x 12' x 10'
Documented for camera
Printed as pigment color prints
Dimensions variable
IDENTIFYING THE FOSSIL, 2017
From the series Deep See: Dive, 2017 - Ongoing
Chalk pastel and fossil on canvas
Dimensions of canvas: 5' x 5' x 1/4"
Documented for camera
Printed as pigment color print
Dimensions variable
IDENTIFYING THE FOOTPRINTS, 2017
From the series Deep See: Dive, 2017 - Ongoing
Chalk pastel, nail polish, slate, clay, on canvas
Dimensions of canvas: 4' x 4' x 1/2"
Documented for camera
Printed as pigment color prints
Dimensions variable