Skins and Vessels
This is an exploration of texture, materials and surface — integrated with a biography beneath the surface. Skin conceals. Contains layers. And infinitely sheds itself to renew top stratums. Yet, here is paradox. Skin cannot journey through life unscarred, no matter its renovation. Examination brings forth an apt underworld depicted in marred and pocked marks and punctures here and there.
The painstakingly multi-layered executed stained paper pieces, on heavy French rag is surprisingly dimensional throughout thick masses intertwined with subtle twisting skeins and cosmic splatters. The illusion of layers are integral to surface, for illusion is always the life beneath the surface.
Small stained paintings and assemblages are framed in what one critic called “strange and haunting little boxes” that “shrink the sacred down to human scale. The boxes are miniatures, either reliefs or stained paper, each its own chapter.
The work is intimate, so much so at times that its underlying aesthetic takes a stretch in its coming.
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Encaustic, rust, tea, string, thread, cheesecloth, cotton organza, on paper, modeling paste, rusted steel, plexiglass
Encaustic, rust, tea, string, thread, cheesecloth, cotton organza, on paper, modeling paste, rusted steel, plexiglass
Encaustic, rust, tea, string, thread, cheesecloth, on paper, modeling paste, rusted steel
Encaustic, rust, tea, string, thread, cheesecloth, on paper, modeling paste, rusted steel
Encaustic, rust, tea, string, thread, cheesecloth, on paper, modeling paste, rusted steel
Encaustic, rust, tea, string, thread, cheesecloth, on paper, modeling paste, rusted steel
Encaustic, rust, tea, string, thread, silk organza, on paper, modeling paste, rusted steel
Encaustic, rust, tea, string, thread, silk organza, on paper, modeling paste, rusted steel
Rusted steel frame, modeling paste on panel in shadow box frame, paper, rust, tea, string, thread, rice paper, cheesecloth, yarn
Rusted steel frame, modeling paste on panel in shadow box frame, paper, rust, tea, string, thread cotton organza, yarn, rice paper
Rusted steel frame, modeling paste on panel in shadow box frame, paper, rust, tea, string, thread, silk organza, cheesecloth, yarn
Cotton organza, encaustic, rust, tea, thread, yarn, paper, dry pigment, charcoal, graphite, color pencil, modeling paste on canvas on panel
Cotton organza, encaustic, rust, tea, thread, yarn, paper, dry pigment, charcoal, graphite, color pencil, modeling paste on canvas on panel
Cotton organza, encaustic, rust, tea, thread, yarn, paper, dry pigment, charcoal, graphite, color pencil, modeling paste on canvas on panel
Encasutic, rust, tea, and thread on paper, rusted steel frame
Encasutic, rust, tea, and thread on paper, rusted steel frame
Encasutic, rust, tea, and thread on paper, rusted steel frame
Encasutic, rust, tea, and thread on paper, rusted steel frame
Rust, tea and encaustic on paper
Rust, tea on paper, rusted steel frame
Rust, tea, string, on paper, rusted steel frame
Rust, tea, string, on paper, rusted steel frame
Encasutic, rust, tea, and thread on paper, rusted steel frame
Rust, tea, string, on paper, rusted steel frame
rust, tea, and encaustic on paper and on canvas stitched into wood frame.
Rusted steel frame, Rust, tea, string, thread, and encaustic on paper
Rusted steel frame, Rust, tea and color pencil string, thread, and encaustic on paper
Encaustic, hair, rust, tea, thread, on paper on canvas stitched into wood
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