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MFA work, Fall 2009
Using candy, hair, roving (sheeps' wool) and lights as well as more conventional materials (like wood and paper) I made this series of sculptures last semester. My work has always been about nostalgia but these are more specifically a reflection on a pre-digital time when magic in childhood really meant a kind of inexplicable phenomenon.
These days, magic is often depicted as technology that is so advanced that we are unable to grasp it. In toys, technology is what creates the sense of wonder. Pre-computer, the magic and wonder happened in the imagination.  click
My Favorite Monster at Arizona Museum for Youth (AMY)
Here is the work from the My Favorite Monster show at the Arizona Museum for Youth in 2009. click
Puppets and Stuffed Animals
They may be cute but they're not really for kids.
Please visit the about page for a more concise description of this ongoing series. click
Creatures
This gallery contains paintings of monsters made over the last two or three years.click
Romantic Girls
This is a series of small portraits on board. They are meant to be romantic in a Renaissance kind of way but you can see from looking at the Blue Girl that I wasn't all that serious about being true to this convention. click
Student Work
There are really two distinct directions here: There are figures backlit in front of windows and there are abstract paintings done on paper. (I'm more fond of the former.) It is interesting to note that the figures are all nearly perfectly life size - a head is the size of a head, a hand held up to the painting matches that of the figure. The abstract pieces are really collages with paint. I went through a phase where I wanted my work to be like messy graphic design. Most of these I even started using a letter as the under painting - m, n, and h I think. Looking at them now I recall feeling like pasting the collage on the paper was very much like hanging laundry on a cloths line. click
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Mirror human hair, CCFT lamps, wire, battery, found box, silver leaf, ground glass 6"x6"x65"
Bunny Hand Puppet, pastel, ink, and absorbant ground on paper, 36"x24", 2008
Sal, oil on board, 4 feet x 6 feet, 2001
Yellow figure in the window, oil on canvas, 4 feet x 5 feet, 1994
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