Smithsonian Artist Residency Fellowship Application, 2017 

Running Mother with the Twins
Chinese ink, gouache, acrylic, and nail polish on 16 slate pieces
60" x 65" x 1/4"
2016

Shown here is the work installed on the wall, with detail images. This piece is from the larger body of work: I Eye Witnesses, completed in 2016.


Monkey and Bear Back to Back I
Chinese ink, gouache, acrylic, and nail polish on 19 slate pieces
60" x 60" x 1/4"
2016

Shown here is the work installed on the wall, with a detail image. This work is from the larger body of work: I Eye Witnesses, completed in 2016.


The Witnesses: Gathering #1
Chinese ink on 21 slate pieces
108" x 60" x 14" installed, each piece of slate varies from 5" x 5" x 1/4" to 14" x 14" x 1/4"
2015

Shown here is the work installed on the wall, with detail images, and with myself as witness/character inside of it. 


Waterfall Vision
Gesso, acrylic and Chinese ink on 84 pieces of slate
360" x 36" x 1/4" - each cascade
2016

Shown here is the work installed at the Carnegie Museum of Art and at solo show debut solo at 707 Gallery, both in Pittsburgh -  with detail images. 


Lungs in the Air
Created for the Freshworks Residency Program
30-minute performance with slate, two bodies, water, piano, and fabric sculptures - made in collaboration with Hannah G Thompson
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
December 2016

Shown here are images from original performance work where I used slate in a variety of new functions: as material to perform with, costume to wear, set design, and as musical instrument.
 


 

First Place Woman Transformed 50 Times on May 16, 2014
50 Unique Color Digital Photographs
Printed on Espon Professional Paper, signed and numbered on back
13.75" x 10.75" each
Edition of 1 plus 2 A.P.
2014

Shown here is a grid of 8 of the 50 unique individual prints from the series. 


Umbrella Drawings (Drawing Session #02.02.15)
27 Drawings Total

Chalk, pastel, chalk, charcoal on paper
14" x 11" and 11" x 8"
2015

Shown here are 8 of the total 27 drawings as displayed on wall in exhibition.


The Woods Archive (1972 - 1991)
One-hundred and twenty-six 35mm photographs from my mom's collection of over 10,000 family photos
Dimensions of each photograph variable
All photos by Tad or Gay Myers 1972 - 1991
Assembled in 2012

Commissioned and published by:
University of Southern California
Cinematic Arts Department
Spectator Film Journal

Fall 2012 Issue

Shown here are five out of the 126 photos from the sub-collection that were curated out of the  10,000+ photos from my mom's archive of family photos.  This is a good example of my interest in creating a photographic sub-collection from a pre-existing archive - like what I propose to do at NMAI.