Installed at Miriam Gallery 2020, Brooklyn NY
Presented at Untitled Miami Beach, the Museum imagines a futuristic explorer who discovers a cave filled with artifacts from our present. The works are cast from various materials mined from both the natural world and consumer culture including marble dust, coal, and broken bottle glass. The museum context allows us to explore the multiple ideas that have resulted in our anthropocenic era including patriarchy, identity, and potential ecological collapse. Through both figuration and references to geological formations as well as classical architecture and common contemporary objects the museum explores a broad swath of our current social situation.
Cast Marble Dust and resin
82x28x27 (unique multiple)
When a stalactite and a stalagmite meet in a cave it is called a column. This sculpture produced by nature references classical columns from antiquity. In this instance the dripping from above has enveloped three figures whose feet still protrude. Their shoes reveal the power structures that defined them: Size 13 Florsheim oxfords, Womens Ralph Lauren Wingtips, and a pair of tactical boots worn by police the world over.
Pink Cowboy, Girl
Cast marble dust and resin
23.5x11x12
Jade(ed) Banker
Cast Marble dust and resin
18x10x11
Blue Skies Banker
Cast marble dust and resin
11.5x6x8.5
ALL Unique Multiples
Individually cast marble shells adhered to skeletal anatomy skull w/ broken glass bottle shards inside. Can be viewed open or closed
Closed: 8x10.5x7
Open: 6.5x13x10 (depending upon placement)
Broken Glass bottle shards, resin, cast marble apple, skeletal hand models
5x7x8
*note: casts of my hands inside my work gloves with anatomical model inserted
Broken glass bottle shards, resin, anatomical foot models
7x10x11
*note: casts of my feet inside my sneakers with skeletal model inserted
Cast marble and coal with resin, broken glass
17.75x7x7
*note: Top half of Francis cast in Jade colored marble and resin, bottom half cast in coal dust and resin, individual shells cast in coal and resin and adhered to sculpture. Patron saint of animals, in this sculpture he is being been overtaken by coal sea snails.
Cast coal with resin
6.5x8x8.5
*note: cast of MAGA hat in coal and coal dust with resin. This hat was not purchased.