Newspaper, gumballs. 11 1/2”x 6 1/2”x 3 1/2”.Collection of the artist.
One of this series exhibited at Hillyer Gallery, Washington D.C., 2011.
Newspaper with Gumballs #1 1979
1979
Cake 1979
Newspaper, artificial flowers, 12” diameter 5”. Collection of the artist.
(question) 1979
Newspaper and fabric, 13″x 8″x 1 1/2″. Collection of the artist.
Exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984.
Paper, sculpmetal 1979
Paper, sculpmetal, wood. 2″ diameter. Collection of the artist.
Exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984.
.0520 NYC (found paper)Collage 1979
Found ledger, paper with carbons, wire. 14 1/2″x 11″. Collection of the artist.
.0414 1979
Plaster, feathers. 8” x 10” diameter. Collection of the artist.
.0128 Italian Icon 1979
Newspaper, pasta, mixed materials. 17”x 8”x 3 1/4”. Collection of Anne Marchand and Steve Foster.
Exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984.
.0124 Book in Cement 1979
Book, cement. 5″x 2’x 1 1/2″. Collection of Alexander Stoia.
Exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.,1984.
.0058 Still Life 1979
Newspaper. 18″ tall. Collection of the artist.
Exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.,1984.
.0052 Bouquet 1979
Artificial Flowers. Collection of the artist.
.0031 Clothes 1979
Clothes, acrylic medium. 16″x 8″diameter. Collection of the Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University.
Exhibited at Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984. Exhibited in “Recontextualizing the Found,” curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos and Bill Pangburn, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, NYC, 2014.
Exhibited in “Metamorphosis: Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” curated by Maurita Poole and Laura Blereau, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA , 2022
This is a very early work further addressing the concept of record-keeping, journaling with materials, autobiography, Compression, distillation of experience, hinting at these by exposing interior layers.
The piece is composed of some of the clothes my mother made or purchased for me prior to my year as a student in Italy, that I wore there, and that returned with me. They retain something of my experience there. They are materially the same but different. Transformed -as I was- during that period of time.
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