Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Brookline Open Studios April 30th & MAy 1st, 2011
Hello everyone, I will be participating in the Brookline Open Studios weekend in two ways and at two different locations this year.
I will show assemblage sculptures in Hunneman Hall at the Main Public Library at 361 Washington Street in Brookline. PLEASE NOTE THE HOURS ARE LIMITED TO 1 - 4:30 ON BOTH DAYS.
I will also be installing a small sculpture in a tree at Riverway Park as part of the Studios Without Walls show. The theme is "Sanctuary" and I have decided to create a site-specific piece for this location. I will be at the park (between the Riverway and the Longwood T stop) on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a chat before heading up to the library.
I would love to see friends old and new, so please stop by for a visit.
More information about other artists, times, and locations can be found at www.brooklineartists.com
I will show assemblage sculptures in Hunneman Hall at the Main Public Library at 361 Washington Street in Brookline. PLEASE NOTE THE HOURS ARE LIMITED TO 1 - 4:30 ON BOTH DAYS.
I will also be installing a small sculpture in a tree at Riverway Park as part of the Studios Without Walls show. The theme is "Sanctuary" and I have decided to create a site-specific piece for this location. I will be at the park (between the Riverway and the Longwood T stop) on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a chat before heading up to the library.
I would love to see friends old and new, so please stop by for a visit.
More information about other artists, times, and locations can be found at www.brooklineartists.com
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Autumn Approaches
It has been a long summer. A good, sunscreen laden, ice cream covered, exhausted every day summer. Now the kids are heading back to school and I am finally able to get back to work. I have been working on some new wall-hanging pieces that should be ready for the Roslindale Open Studios show (see Upcoming).
I am hopeful that the cooler weather and more free time will conspire to make me work a little slower, listen a little closer.
As always, time will tell.
I am hopeful that the cooler weather and more free time will conspire to make me work a little slower, listen a little closer.
As always, time will tell.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Artist Statement
My work is inspired by an obsession with collecting all manner of natural and man-made cast-offs. I bring these items into my studio and place them alongside previous finds in a continually rotating Wunderkammer of treasures that provides the raw materials and inspiration for these assemblages. Like the iconic works of Joseph Cornell and Robert Rauschenberg, my work combines disparate elements in an attempt to reveal underlying relationships and suggest narratives through unexpected juxtapositions.
While my collecting is intuitively based, I gravitate towards objects exhibiting characteristics of natural and unnatural histories. An example of the former may be a bird nest blown from a tree; while a fragment of rusted metal embodies the latter. My work is a celebration of decay, accretion and the detritus of the natural world and is a response to our culture’s inexorable pursuit of sleek and shiny objects. By combining materials considered worthless with others more precious, it is my aim to glorify the beauty I find within each.
It is my intention to create objects that draw the viewer in from across the room. I intentionally create abstract pieces that are left open to interpretation by using collage and non-linear storytelling. By framing my sculpture in rough-hewn boxes, I create small theaters where these surreal narratives play out. My influences, which include the films of David Lynch and The Brothers Quay, inform many of the decisions in my process. The magic of cinema and the mystery of artificial worlds is a driving force in my journey as an artist.
I arrive at this work after 7 years in interior design. As a practitioner, I have been unable to exercise as much creative freedom as I desire, as interior design by its nature is a collaborative process. As the economy slowed, I was able to devote more time to pursue the elements of design that fuel my passion, which ultimately resulted in this body of work. While I am still working on rooms, they are now on a smaller and more personal scale, and I am finally able to experience the creative independence I have been seeking all along.
While my collecting is intuitively based, I gravitate towards objects exhibiting characteristics of natural and unnatural histories. An example of the former may be a bird nest blown from a tree; while a fragment of rusted metal embodies the latter. My work is a celebration of decay, accretion and the detritus of the natural world and is a response to our culture’s inexorable pursuit of sleek and shiny objects. By combining materials considered worthless with others more precious, it is my aim to glorify the beauty I find within each.
It is my intention to create objects that draw the viewer in from across the room. I intentionally create abstract pieces that are left open to interpretation by using collage and non-linear storytelling. By framing my sculpture in rough-hewn boxes, I create small theaters where these surreal narratives play out. My influences, which include the films of David Lynch and The Brothers Quay, inform many of the decisions in my process. The magic of cinema and the mystery of artificial worlds is a driving force in my journey as an artist.
I arrive at this work after 7 years in interior design. As a practitioner, I have been unable to exercise as much creative freedom as I desire, as interior design by its nature is a collaborative process. As the economy slowed, I was able to devote more time to pursue the elements of design that fuel my passion, which ultimately resulted in this body of work. While I am still working on rooms, they are now on a smaller and more personal scale, and I am finally able to experience the creative independence I have been seeking all along.
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