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Doppelganger 66" x 66"
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Three
Graces wood 57" x 34" x 36" |
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Emptying wood 40" x 44" x 9" |
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I usually first do a drawing of the sculpture before I begin to find and assemble the right pieces of wood to form the sculpture. To make my sculptures, I go into the forests around my house and collect sticks and limbs that have fallen from the trees. I never chop down a living tree. Wood needs time to cure and check before I can work with it. I make sure the wood is stabilized by having rested on the forest floor—or in my studio for a period of time. I then remove the bark and sand the wood to expose its “bones"—the clean wood. I am interested in having the sculptures look as if they were “born” in nature. The pieces must be well crafted—to have the seams appear to be seamless. Importantly, I use no large power tools and the sculptures are not steam bent. Instead, the sections of wood are all ,“cut and paste”, so to speak. Each piece of wood is jointed, glued and then sanded together by hand to give the sculpture its underlying form. Frequently, I finish the sculpture by using different mediums such as linseed oil, ashes, earth or oil paint. For the past year I have been working on a series of life size vases (please see the sculpture “Three Graces” as a first in the series). These sculptures varying in height-up to seven feet tall are all open vessels. They are containers that cannot contain a thing. There are usually two or three vases grouped together as a single piece. Some of the vases might be lying on the ground, some are propped up by another vase. They all depict a certain relationship to each other. To me they are like human beings. We are open, like these vessels but what do we really contain inside, what do we own, what are our relationships with ourselves and each other? To me this series is a jumping off point to explore the many facets of our human condition and our place on this Earth.
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Education: 1979 Selected Exhibitions: 2008 Locally Grown The Arts Exchange White Plains NY Curator: Kenise Barnes 2008 Two Person Exhibition Kenise Barnes Fine Arts Larchmont NY 2008 The Westchester Biennial Castle Gallery New Rochelle NY 2007 2006 2006 Westchester Community College Valhalla NY
Winter Solstice IV The Studio Armonk NY Curator: Tedd Stratis 2005 Edgy and Elegant The Arts Exchange White Plains NY Curator: Rosemary Erpf, Ph.D. 2005 Artistic Fragments Katonah Museum of Art Katonah NY Juror and Curator: Benny Andrews 2004 Winter Solstice III The Studio Armonk NY 2004 Juried Show Putnam Center for the Arts Mahopac NY Award: Honorable Mention 2003 The Drawing Show Westchester Arts Council White Plains NY 2002 Winter Solstice II The Studio Armonk NY 2002 Director's Choice Show Kenise Barnes Fine Art Larchmont NY 2002 The Westchester Biennial Castle Gallery New Rochelle NY Award: Director's Choice 2002 Grassroots The Gallery on the Hudson Dobbs Ferry NY 1995 Flesh and Grain Two Person Show Livestock Gallery New York NY 1994 Fever Show Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus OH 1992 Testsite Gallery Williamsburgh NY Curator: Annie Heron 1992 Fever Show Exit Art New York NY
1.5 Show New York NY Curator: Muranushi/Lederman 1991 Testsite Gallery Williamsburgh NY 1990 Solo Show Woodpecker InterArts Space New York NY 1988 Points of Departure Gallery New York NY 1987 Solo Show Jim Diaz Gallery New York NY 1987, 1986 Jim Diaz Gallery New York NY 1986 Running Show New York Road Runners Club New York NY 1985 Connecticut Open Richter Art Center Danbury CT 1980 Hudson River Museum New York NY 1979 Neuberger Museum Purchase NY Collections: Cygna Corporation Morgan Stanley Trust Security Pacific Bank Private Collections in US and Europe Grants: Cummington Community of the Arts Cummington MA
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