More Prints

Shopping Cart Sheperds

10" x 12" silk screen 2012. Page in an artists' book about the closest contemporary equivalent we have to a shepherd today... the shopping cart attendant. The book illustrates their experience gathering and managing the flock.

Nutcrackers

36" x 60" Drawing 2011. Emasculators, various sizes, used for the castration of horses and other large animals.

It smelled like bread at first

40" x 28" Pastel on paper 2011

Truck Nuts: Series of Dodgeballs

An edition of 12 woodcut prints, 22" x 30", blue trucks with embossed truck nuts dangling from the hitch and popping out at the viewer. First part of a series based on the concept of trucks having a male gender. Truck Nuts are available for purchase from many different online manufacturers and come in many different colors. Truck Nuts, or bumper nuts, are illegal in several states, including Connecticut. Printed at Vermont Studio Center, 2011.

Pseudologie:

Inspired by an etching made during the time of early photography, I have finished the sentence for now and updated the glory of today's process of creating and making. Polymer plate print, 11" x 15" in black and brown ink, printed on a Vandercook press at The Prairie Center for the Arts in Peoria, Illinois.

'Beautiful Birds, Delicious Desserts, Pigeons and Whoopi Pies'

14"x 18" Photogravure and ten layer silk screen combination print. Edition of 14. Once upon a time, there were more beautiful birds and delicious desserts. Now there are pigeons and whoopi pies. A tribute to the hudson river painters.

Today’s Toile:

Based on Traditional Toile wallpaper, I designed my own toile with contemporary imagery. Including: a foreclosed house, a thank you plastic bag stuck in a tree, a shopping cart in an empty parking lot, an abandoned merry go round and a forgotten railroad track sprinkled with debris. Three color silk screen. 8' x 10' used for the mantel wall in the installation 'The Living Room', 2009

Mary’s Mighty Maids:

Is an ongoing performance. Mary’s Mighty Maids is a cleaning service, ‘the sin cleaning experts’. They will come to your house and clean your sins with a specially blessed vacuum. After cleaning, the bag itself becomes the ‘holy receptacle of sin’, and an inventory is taken of what exactly has been collected inside the bag. The inventory label is placed on the back of the bag, and disposed of in a very holy manner.

'Absorbency'

10" x 14" edition of 10. Photogravure.

Paper Doll Performance:

I turn myself into a paper doll for the audience to manipulate and play with. My clothes are life size silk-screens, adjusted to my actual size, and printed on heavy- duty paper, with actual paper doll clothes tabs. The cutout clothes are able to be attached to me easily by the audience, enabling them to mix and match my appearance.

"Mental Hydration Cycle

14" x 18" silk screen

'Land of Enchantment'

22" x 30" silk screen. Edition of 10.

How To Run After Something With Passion:

An artist book in progress, it serves as an instructional guide about how to go after something that you really really want. Pages 14" x 18". Prints: Title page, photogravure ' With Steam', silk screen 'Mental Hydration', drawing 'Mental Hydration Cycle', photogravure 'Torro', and photogravure 'determining speed'

What to Avoid:

A fold out page soon to be an etching print, describing visually what you need to avoid when running after something with passion.

Child Soldier’s Coloring Book:

A coloring book designed as a learning tool specifically for those children who actually have the real life role of ‘soldier’. Some children dress up as soldiers, others are soldiers.

Argument is War:

Argument is War is a paper plate series incorporating the prestige of American decorative plates along with the irony of such statements of everyday ‘agreement’; can be interpreted in any tone of ‘voice’.

The Two ‘Hustle’ images:

Come from a series of silkscreens based on the dance steps of disco in the 70s. Dance steps are laid out specifically to instruct/ demonstrate to the average person which foot goes where when during that particular dance. But what happens inbetween the dance steps? If I was to map out my own dance steps doing the hussle, where would the missteps be placed? And would they have numbers? This series of prints explores this idea of the dance steps you may not see or even think could be possibilities.

'Disco Duck'

30" x 40" digital print. Maps out the dance floor on a typical night at Studio 54. Legend on the right lists the dances. Only one printed.

'Dick Trola'

A man, half Victrola, half Dick. Adventure series. Silk screen, edition of 3.

Stardusa:

An animation based on my own associations of a popular hot beverage icon with how I feel about it.

Click here to view the animation.