Sculpture Painting Drawing

2013 37”x 12”x 33” Clay, canvas, wood, acrylic, string, vintage buttons

A sculptural variation on a literary interpretation: five puppets, their commonality the wood and strings from which they are suspended, but different in their details, the masks, the color, the buttons.

2014 107”x 36”x 36” scrabble cubes, jump rope, rubber bucket, rope ladder, block and chain: a myriad of objects suspended from a steel ring, in a singular purpose of engagement

Scrabble cubes spell out the titular anagram.

This personal icon, 6" in height, of miniscule weight, balances precariously on the steel swing.

2014 107”x 30”x 30” canvas, bells, buttons, stainless steel, ropes, misc. hardware.

This is a metaphor for three stages of life, each with its own weight to carry.

2009 44” x 42” x 7” rope, weight, canvas, wood, chain

My earliest aesthetic influences came from the animations of Max and Dave Fleischer: an orchestration of incongruities in darkness and light, goodness and evil, innocence and guilt. Images of realism and abstraction were cleverly interwoven with humor, fantasy and fear underlying each narrative. The plasticity of these ever-morphing images carried the 2-d world into a sculptural vision, and my inchoate understanding that the playful can be very serious business had indeed begun.

2007 50” x 22” x 22” aluminum, plaster, canvas, brass, clay

Sometimes each one of us is the odd one out. So let’s take the story of these three disparate creatures: in color or its absence, as fragile as plaster or as tough as bronze, with focused determination or happy- go-lucky complacency, each travels in its own circle yet shares the same planetary spin.

We can dress ourselves up and celebrate our oddities with our fellow travelers. We orbit a multi-faceted belief system.

The message is simple: we were all at that same party and have the hats on to prove it.